"The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion."
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"When an injustice happens, we want to be vindicated. People feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong. If we're honest, we'll admit that we usually want the person who hurt us to pay for what they did. We can't get past this until we get the revelation that only God can pay us back. He is our Vindicator - He will heal and restore us if we will trust Him and forgive our enemies as He has told us to do."
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"My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds."
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"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."
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"Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling."
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"I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory"
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"Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise."
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"The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future."
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"The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does"
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"I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future."
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"What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery"
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"And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film."
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"Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth."
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"The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."
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"To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh."
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"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."
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"To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was."
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"There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future."
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"We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history."
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"When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present."
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