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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
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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
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- 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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
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)
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"I" is a non-stop storyteller, spinning tales
of the past, the present and the future -
constantly editing, interpreting
and directing this inner movie.
- Josh Baran
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't project your past onto my future.
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If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
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
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I create a new and more loving story
to surround each event in my past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The past is no more and the future is not yet.
The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,
whose arrow is directed to the moment,
who is always here and now; wherever he is,
his whole consciousness, his whole being,
is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
- Osho
I choose not to project my past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho
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
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
When someone has a strong intuitive connection,
Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma,
some past connection.
- Richard Gere
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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