“When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.”
Source: Healing the Wounds of the Past
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“People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.”
Advice given to her protégée, Kiron Skinner, while serving as Provost at Stanford University; quoted in James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans (Penguin Books, New York: 2004, ISBN 0-143-03489-8, p. 227.
“Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.”
The Resurrection of a Life (1935)
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch, citaat van B.C. Koekkoek:) [de natuur] alleen schenkt u die bij eene aandachtige beschouwing harer majesteit en grootheid.. .Spreidt zij geene prachttaferelen voor uw oog ten toon, die onmogelijk een ander u zou kunnen beschrijven?. ..die gij naderhand op uwe kamer op het doek of paneel kunt trachten te verwezenlijken.
Quote of Koekkoek, 1841: in: Herinneringen aan en Mededeelingen van eenen Landschapschilder, as cited in 'Andreas Schelfhout Onsterfelijk schoon', p. 35 https://www.simonis-buunk.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/catalogus_schelfhout.pdf
“It's up to you now, and we shall help you — that my past does not become your future.”
Speech at the UN World Peace Day (21 September 2006) New York, Speech in UN Webcast (00:16:35) http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/specialevents/se050921.rm
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.”
The Camelot Project interview (1996)
Context: When the legend is retold, it mirrors the reality of the time, and one can learn from studying how various authors have attempted to retell the story. I don't think we have an obligation to change it radically. I think that if we ever move too far from the basic story, we would lose something very precious. I don't, for instance, approve of fantasy that attempts to go back and rewrite the Middle Ages until it conforms to political correctness in the twentieth century. That removes all the benefit from reading the story. If you don't understand other people in their time and why they did what they did, then you don't understand your own past. And when you lose your past, you lose some potential for your own future.