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Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Certainty - Chance - Dependence - Expectation - Future - Loss - Power - Time - Uncertainty

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Louise Hay

Author

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Past

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Flight - Future - Hope - Human - Loss - Mindset - Objectification - Pleasure - Present - Satisfaction

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Making - Mindset - Oneself - Past - People

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William Faulkner

Writer

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

Memory - Past - Sweet - Treasure

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Petrarch

Designer, Poet, Poet

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

Age - Answers - Art - Book - Death - Events - Past - Return - Secrets - Soul - Suffering - Teaching - Wit

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Past - Politics - Wonder

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

Children - Clothes - Giving - Past - Soul

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

Consciousness - Past - Quality

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

Anticipation - Anxiety - Comfort - Dread - Events - Future - Life - Peace - Worrying

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Vladimir Nabokov

Leader, Novelist, Novelist

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

Gentleness - Past - Poison - Science - Wants

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Epictetus

Clergyman, Philosopher, Philosopher

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Communicate - Compassion - Kindness - Libertarian - Listening - Speaking

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.

Deal - Fear - Future - People - Problem - Thinking

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Louise Hay

Author

The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!

Negative - Past - Realization

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Rajneesh

Guru

First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

Certainty - Consciousness - Growing - Intelligence - Past - Pretense - Real - Wellness

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Alan Greenspan

Economist, Former Chair of the US Federal Reserve

The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

Doubt - Drama - Economy - Force - Innovation - Past - Productivity - Return - Technology - Tendency - Transformation - Yielding

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

Boy - Burden - Instinct - Man - Nations - Past - World

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Future - Robots - Slavery

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

Belief - Doubt - Energy - Fashion - Glory - Manliness - Past - Universe - Unnecessary

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