#past

Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply? Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again. ↗

— Barbara Michaels

#past-lives #experience

You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you from experience that it isn’t. It is just like the time as a kid when you really didn’t want to eat your greens. If you hid them underneath a piece of furniture, sooner or later your mum would discover them because all she had to do was follow the smell. Just like the broccoli, hidden issues begin to smell if they are not brought out into the open air. There is no escape. ↗

— Corallie Buchanan

#pain #experience

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #artists-life #creative #creativity #experiences

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it. ↗

— Steve Berry

#history #past #experience

The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From. ↗

— Mary Norton

#past #experience

You know the saying a rolling stone gathers no moss? I'm the opposite. I've gathered too much, and when one thing happens, it brings up everything else that's ever been similar to it. I don't just feel things once and then move on. I fell them over and over again, and the only new thing is whatever precipitated the memory of the old, so it never really feels new at all. Everything just gets integrated into one big giant ball... ↗

— Jane Devin

#memory #past #remembering #experience

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#past-experiences #experience

Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much. ↗

— Denis Avey

#remember-your-past #ww #experience

Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#faith #john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership-quotes #mens-qoutes