Living In The Past Quotes

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore.

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

Jews are living in the past and they can't get over it.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Last Christmas someone stole my present. I've spent this year living in the past.

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.