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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
I create a new and more loving story
to surround each event in my past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
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He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Release your burdens - your fears, regrets,
guilts, shames, embarrassments, angers.
One by one, pick up each memory or fear that troubles you,
hold it close, and release it to the Universe.
Release each incident from your past that still bothers you.
Release each fear - your fears about your health,
your family, your job, and every other fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I choose not to project my past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
Don't project your past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stop holding on to the past.
Release your regrets about whatever you may have done
or failed to do that turned out poorly.
Forgive others for whatever they may have done
or failed to do that cause you harm.
Declare today to be a new beginning.
Let go of the past and move on with creating
a joyful new future for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
That person did the very best they could,
given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experience
they had to draw upon at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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