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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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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

Someday

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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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Laozi

Philosopher

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Attachment - Enlightenment - Fishing - Goodbye - Trial - Winning - World

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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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Indira Gandhi

Former Prime Minister of India

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

Challenge - Knowledge - Leadership - Someday - Trial - Wellness

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

End - Principle - Someday

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Compete - Decision - Survival - Winning

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Discipline - Heroism - Imitation - Man - Playing - Thinking - Winning - Woman

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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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Earl Nightingale

Radio Speaker, Author

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Laughing - Loss - Permission - War - Whole - Winning - World

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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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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Earth - Someday

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