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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- 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
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- 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
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- 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
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
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 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
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
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
Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard
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
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Drive into your future looking at the open road ahead
rather than into the rear-view mirror of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
- 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
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- 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
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
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
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
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
For time and the world do not stand still.
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
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I create a new and more loving story
to surround each event in my past.
- 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
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
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