Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past

 

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past.
Clear away the prejudices and the biases.
Consider history from the perspective of both the losers and the winners.
Attempt to strip history (both your personal history and world history) down to just the facts.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Learning From History

Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Letting Go - Moving On
       

Study the Past

 

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

There are recurring cycles, ups and downs,
but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations.
It has been said that history repeats itself.
This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.
- Theodor Reik (sometimes falsely attributed to Mark Twain)

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

The importance of history is in its
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    

Attempt to strip history down to just the facts

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past.
Clear away the prejudices and the biases.
Consider history from the perspective of both the losers and the winners.
Attempt to strip history (both your personal history and world history) down to just the facts.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Learning From History

Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Letting Go - Moving On
       

Learn from the Past

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

There are recurring cycles, ups and downs,
but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations.
It has been said that history repeats itself.
This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.
- Theodor Reik (sometimes falsely attributed to Mark Twain)

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

The importance of history is in its
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    

Reimagining the Past

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past.
Clear away the prejudices and the biases.
Consider history from the perspective of both the losers and the winners.
Attempt to strip history (both your personal history and world history) down to just the facts.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Learning From History

Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Letting Go - Moving On
       

 

Study the Past

 

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

There are recurring cycles, ups and downs,
but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations.
It has been said that history repeats itself.
This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.
- Theodor Reik (sometimes falsely attributed to Mark Twain)

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

The importance of history is in its
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    

The Past Only "Means" What We Say It Means

 

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past.
Clear away the prejudices and the biases.
Consider history from the perspective of both the losers and the winners.
Attempt to strip history (both your personal history and world history) down to just the facts.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Learning From History

Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Letting Go - Moving On
       

We Get to Choose What We Learn From the Past

 

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past.
Clear away the prejudices and the biases.
Consider history from the perspective of both the losers and the winners.
Attempt to strip history (both your personal history and world history) down to just the facts.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Learning From History

Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Letting Go - Moving On
       

Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Clean the Lens Through Which You View the Past.
Clear away the prejudices and the biases.
Consider history from the perspective of both the losers and the winners.
Attempt to strip history (both your personal history and world history) down to just the facts.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Learning From History

Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Letting Go - Moving On
       

Study The Lessons Of History

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill

The importance of history is in its
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened.
Everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
- Niccolò Machiavelli

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Further reading: Awareness

Vengeance

Fault

Anger
         

Seeing the Past in New Ways

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Further reading: Release the Past

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Learning From History

Letting Go - Moving On
       

Create Your Own Day Today

Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a relentless master.
It has no present, only the past rushing into the future.
To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F. Kennedy

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho

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

Today's Affirmation: I Create Today As a Celebration of My Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life Really Is Good

Giving Thanks for the Commonplace

The Power of Appreciation

Feeling Blessed

Appreciating Today
   

Remembering What Matters

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Further reading: Your Legacy

Time to Smell the Flowers

Gratitude: A Cosmic Invitation

You Can't Escape Yourself
    

Revising the Past

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Release the Past

Learning From History

The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness

Letting Go - Moving On
   

A Firm Foundation

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- Thomas Kempis

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
- Christine Gregoire

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at;
it is the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
- David Allan Coe

Further reading: Honoring Our Roots

Not By Our Bootstraps

Pay It Forward

Feeling Blessed
     

Perspective on the Past

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins
[Reading about the unemployment, economic disparity, and political polarization of the 1890s is a great background for gaining a new perspective on today's events.]

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Learning From History

Release the Past

Historical Perspective

Take Charge of Your Life

Step Back

New Eyes

History

Past

Perspective

Learning From History

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill

History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Awareness

Vengeance

Fault

Anger

History

Education

Tolerance

The Past

Revenge

Extend your hand with the strongest reach - Mary Anne Radmacher

Extend your hand with the strongest reach. - Mary Anne Radmacher 

Perspective is both a necessary and a sufficient ground for wisdom. - jlh

Perspective is both a necessary and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One cannot have wisdom without perspective, but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to view every situation as each person who is in any way affected by that situation might view it. Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history, and therefore a historical perspective, as well from as having the perspective of imagination - the realm of the what-might-be inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.

Further reading: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Love is saying "I feel differently" instead of "You're wrong."

Lao Tzu: He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Winston Churchill quote: Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill

The importance of history is in its educational value for our lives today, not in regret, resentment, or revenge.

3 Rs that Plague Humanity - Regret, Resentment, and Revenge.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Further reading: Positive Attitude Sayings

Soar - it's your natural state. - jlh

Take Charge of Your Life

On the Unworkability of Vengeance

Mark Twain quote: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.