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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- 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 impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- 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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
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
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
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 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
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
When someone has a strong intuitive connection,
Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma,
some past connection.
- Richard Gere
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
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- 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
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- 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
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Don't project your past onto my future.
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You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
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
I confessed recently to an old friend,
"I realized I was looking at you,
in your visit, through old glasses.
Speaking old words.
Telling old stories.
I realize that in my life I've made so many
physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up."
Time for my spirit to look at my friend
through the new glasses of current life experiences.
Old friends are precious.
They become even more treasured when they are wrapped
in the currentness of life experiences
and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- 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
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
Drive into your future looking at the open road ahead
rather than into the rear-view mirror of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
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If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
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
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
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
Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard
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