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“Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years”
― FM-2030

“I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed only of what I remember. I have the better view - I can see her clearly, most of the time. But even if she knew enough to look, she can't see me at all.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Rules for Living by Olivia Joules

14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.

and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:

15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.”
― Helen Fielding, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

“Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...”
― Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

“This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future.”
― Kathryn Davis, Duplex

“Use the information you’ve been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you’ve heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life.

You are responsible for your life. That includes the voice inside you and everything it calls you to do. Don’t ignore that voice to follow rules that don’t fit. When a jacket doesn’t fit anymore, it’s time to donate it. Same principle applies for rules which no longer serve you.

You don’t have to curse the rules or condemn them. In fact, there might be someone else who would benefit from them at the exact moment you no longer need them.

Just step into all that you can be and all that you can do.”
― Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human

“I have to tell you about these things from the past, because they are so important. The really important things usually lie in the distant past. And until you know about them, if you'll forgive my saying so, you will always to some extent a mere newcomer in my life.

When I was at High School my favourite pastime was walking. Or rather, loitering. If we are talking about my adolescence, it's the more accurate word. Systematically, one by one, I explored all the districts of Pest. I relished the special atmosphere of every quarter and every street. Even now I can still find the same delight in houses that I did then. In this respect I've never grown up. Houses have so much to say to me. For me, they are what Nature used to be to the poets - or rather, what the poets thought of as Nature.

But best of all I loved the Castle Hill District of Buda. I never tired of its ancient streets. Even in those days old things attracted me more than new ones. For me the deepest truth was found only in things suffused with the lives of many generations, which hold the past as permanently as mason Kelemen's wife buried in the high tower of Deva.”
― Antal Szerb

“We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.”
― F.W. Maitland

“Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain.”
― Nitesh Nishad

“The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to
be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.”
― Paul Fussell

“Surely time past is gone by like a shadow.”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

“The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.”
― Joseph Conrad

“If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?”
― Kathryn Davis

“WidzÄ™ przeszÅ‚ość wyraźniej niż teraźniejszość. Przecież to, co jest nabiera sensu dopiero, gdy minie.”
― Andrzej Stasiuk, °Â²õ³¦³óó»å

“A man cannot fully embrace his future…until he first releases his past”
― Blake L. Higginbotham, Apostles, Elders & Other Ministries

“God's already let go of your past. He doesn't remember it. He doesn't count it against you. Now it's time for you to let go too.”
― Jody Hedlund, Love Unexpected

“You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“Why ever long for something from the past when the future brings things that are so much better?”
― Avery Williams, The Alchemy of Forever

“The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.”
― Human Angels

“It's painful when the phantom of the past keeps on lingering you even you wanted to move on.”
― Kenneth C. Agudo

“Strike a match, ignite my past.”
― Cady Groves

“There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word.”
― Joyce Meyer

“«Lo bueno del pasado es que siempre queda atrás» pensó, recordando las palabras de Little.
«Lo malo del pasado, es que siempre vuelve» pensó a continuación, escuchando la voz de Porko.”
― Angel Aznar García

“Die Freunde, an die ich denke, sind in der Zeit gefangen wie in einem Film. Sie (viele von ihnen sind tot, verschollen) sind in dem Alter, in dem ich sie zuletzt gesehen habe; ich bezweifle, dass sie mich jetzt wiedererkennen würden.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

“Your choices are the reason you are who you are today. When you look back, maybe thinking you shouldn't have done a particular thing, don't stay there. Live for this very moment. After all, this moment is what really matters, your past has come and gone. Move on,”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind.”
― Sushil Singh