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I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us. -- Sylvia Browne
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. -- Yvonne Craig
I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives. -- Candace Bushnell
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. -- Mike Nichols
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. -- Heinrich Schliemann
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. -- Jerome Hines
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. -- David Wilkerson
I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future. -- Marisa Berenson
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. -- Douglas Coupland
Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali. -- Chip Conley
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened. -- Gerald W. Johnson
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. -- James Van Der Beek
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do. -- Jeanne Phillips
I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives. -- John Bradshaw
We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed. -- Park Geun-hye
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time. -- Uri Geller
I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too. -- Nadia Bjorlin
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. -- Jessamyn West
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future. -- Jim Gibbons
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty. -- John Burdett
Good people see past their own fucking lives." -- Isaac Marion
I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money." -- Graham Parke
We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one." -- Doug Dillon
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present." -- Jerome Hines
Past is treasure whether good or bad as both shapes our lives, and shapeless things have no identity...." -- Fawad
I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me." -- Jamie Ford
...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing." -- Lianne Downey
Every soul has a pastEvery soul lives a presentAnd every soul deserve a futureno judging on one's pastbecause its might be your future" -- Hlovate
Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives." -- Melina Marchetta
I've had my past lives read, my aura tuned, my chakras aligned, my spirit guides channeled, my palms interpreted, and my kundalini awakened." -- Sera J. Beak
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being." -- Don DeLillo
Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali." -- Chip Conley
Do I need to ease up on the psychedelics, or did LP just recall one of her past lives unprompted at the most crucial juncture ever?" -- Lauren Kate
Who values the past lives sentimentally.Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.Who solves complexity opens continuity." -- Angelica Hopes
Why couldn't Sam really be a boy my age, with no more experience than I had? No past lives, past loves.Why couldn't he be only for me?" -- Jodi Meadows
Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present" -- Paulo Coelho
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time." -- Uri Geller
Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet."-Mrs. Northe" -- Leanna Renee Hieber
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free." -- Jessamyn West
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see." -- Corrie Ten Boom
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives." -- Adam Hamilton
Every person from your past lives as a shadow in your mind. Good or bad, they all helped you write the story of your life, and shaped the person you are today." -- Doe Zantamata
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life." -- Eugene H. Peterson
The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either." -- Harry Mulisch
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education." -- Tipper Gore
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives." -- Gene Fowler
We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can." -- Lisa Mangum
She felt as if things were moving past her as she lay stretched on the bed under the single sheet. But it's not landscape any longer, she thought; it's people's lives, their changing lives." -- Virginia Woolf
But the intimacy, the smallness, also made me feel shut out; and I found myself hurrying past the inviting little doorways with my head down, very aware of all the convivial Sunday-morning lives unrolling around me in private." -- Donna Tartt
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment." -- J. Michael Straczynski
Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things." -- Winston Churchill
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives." -- Gabriel García Márquez
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become." -- Khaled Hosseini
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people." -- Rob Bell
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich." -- James Loeb
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future." -- Rita Mae Brown
They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though they are free, they never forget their past and spend their lives trying to bring peace to others. (Brotherhood Chanson)" -- Kinley MacGregor
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually." -- William Ellery Channing
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives." -- J. Michael Straczynski
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do." -- Corrie Ten Boom
Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier for him to bind us with heavier sins which can destroy our eternal lives. Anger is a poor substitute for self-mastery and compassionate service." -- Marvin J. Ashton
Achilles pauses, looks over his shoulder at the masses of men behind him, turns back, looks past Zeus toward Olympos and the masses of gods in front of him, and then crooks his neck to look up again at towering Zeus."Surrender now", says Achilles, "and we'll spare your goddesses' lives so they can be our slaves and courtesans." -- Dan Simmons
When the towers again twin-tickle the clouds, I offer to walk again, to be the expression of the builder's collective voice. Together, we will rejoice in an aerial song of victory. I will carry my life across the wire, as your life, as all our lives, past, present, and future -the lives lost, the lives welcomed since.we can overcome." -- Philippe Petit
How strange and foolish is man. He loses his health in gaining wealth. Then, to regain his health he wastes his wealth. He ruins his present while worrying about his future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him, but dies in a way as if he were never born" -- Imam Ali As
I didn't do it to you, I did it to her. Maybeyour past self thinks it's funny.""She doesn't.""That's not my fault. Besides, I'm not a mindreader. You expect me to realize you'respeaking on behalf of all Lucindas ever, every time you talk.You never said anything about not razzingyour past lives. It's all in good fun. For me, anyway." -- Lauren Kate
It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5" -- Jane McGonigal
You might come here Sunday on a whim.Say your life broke down. The last good kissyou had was years ago. You walk these streetslaid out by the insane, past hotelsthat didn't last, bars that did, the tortured tryof local drivers to accelerate their lives.Only churches are kept up. The jailturned 70 this year. The only prisoneris always in, not knowing what he's done." -- Richard Hugo
I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life." -- Julian Barnes
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. -- Lucretius
The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. -- Jose Parla
Our past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies. -- Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez
People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives. -- Paulo Coelho
The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. -- Elif Safak
We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us. -- Samuel Pisar
At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd. -- D. H. Lawrence
Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation. -- Carol Bowman
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. -- Martial
Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today -- Gillian Hovell
I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me -- Jamie Ford
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. -- Eckhart Tolle
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. -- Daniel Levitin
Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future. -- Christopher Dawson
Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn't look at coming changes. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? -- John Steinbeck
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past. -- Robert Harris
While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now. -- Deepak Chopra
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. -- Alexander Pope
I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past. -- A.B. Shepherd
We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one. -- Doug Dillon
The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever. -- Fred Durst
In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate. -- Tenzin Palmo
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel. -- J. C. Ryle
I love exploring the past lives, just because I think it adds so much dimension to a personality. -- Rachel Boston
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. -- Ted Andrews
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. -- James Russell Lowell
The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. -- Michael Ondaatje
You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer. -- Liana Liberato
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. -- Lauren Oliver
Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. -- P. D. James
Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives. -- Frederick Lenz
Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives. -- Frederick Lenz
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. -- Anthony Doerr
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain. -- Laura Schlessinger
Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives. -- Melina Marchetta
I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past. -- Richard Simmons
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses. -- Lauren Oliver
If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation... -- Herbie Brennan
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present. -- Franz Grillparzer
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom. -- Arnaud Desjardins
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. -- Don DeLillo
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. -- Gautama Buddha
We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future. -- Holland Cotter
Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present. -- Russell Targ
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past. -- Gene Wolfe
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