Can't Leave The Past Behind Quotes

#1. Okay, okay, I can do this, Jane said to herself. Of course I can do this. I should be used to making a fool out of myself by now. This will be the last big one. Just three weeks and then I can leave this part of myself behind and get on with my life. And maybe it'll be fun. It might even be fun.

Shannon Hale

#2. The only way the dead live on is through the people they leave behind.

Brian K. Vaughan

#3. I wanted to leave my decision-making behind, along with my responsibility for all future ones.

Hugh Howey

#4. Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

Marty Rubin

#5. You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.

Jennifer Gilmore

#6. Your life on earth will be graded by the effect of the footprints you leave behind

Olufemi Olumide

#7. As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again.

Tara Lipinski

#8. We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

John Owen

#9. One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

Asif Ali Zardari

#10. Too many of us leave our lives - and, in fact, our souls - behind when we go to work.

Arianna Huffington

#11. Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is permanent. Nothing can be trusted to be there. Nothing is safe, including home. Why lie to yourself? Every day we leave something, someone, some observation behind.

Diane Keaton

#13. Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.

Jessica Fortunato

#14. Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.

Adam Silvera

#15. In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

Bethany Brookbank

#16. The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

Sue Augustine

#17. The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

David Trimble

#18. Most people can't wait to leave kidhood behind. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt.

Dean Koontz

#19. (M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

Valerie Martin

#20. Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

Rick Yancey

#21. One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.

Isabel Allende

#22. Leave the past behind you so the future can find you

Brittainy C. Cherry

#23. The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Nelson Mandela

#24. As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Dani Shapiro

#25. I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

Rosamund Lupton

#26. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.

Thornton Wilder

#28. Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#29. When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alex Van Halen

#30. If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#31. I feel you. Inside. In the parts of me I crushed the night my mother died. No matter how I tried to keep you out, you got in and I couldn't let you leave me behind. So listen to me when I say this. My life is yours. You're the reason I'll stay alive. The only goddamn reason.

Dee Tenorio

#32. Sometimes being brave means having to leave things behind and taking that step forward without looking back.

Tanya

#33. Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.

Christopher Pike

#34. It must be instilled in man that 'peace' is the best legacy we would leave behind for the generations to come, as we practice and follow the edicts of human rights.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#35. The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants ...

Louis L'Amour

#36. He knew exactly what he intended to leave behind when he was gone.

Damage.

Leigh Bardugo

#37. Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.

Michael J. Bassett

#38. Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

Steven Furtick

#39. Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Emma Goldman

#40. We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.

Lauren Oliver

#41. It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

Gene Wolfe

#42. Children leave ... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father ... And he will always leave a light on for you.

Fred Savage

#43. Ah,' said Zultan. 'I, too. I keep many books at my home.' He gestured to the books in the tent. 'These are only a few. Those I think might need on this trip, and those I have yet to read and might want, and those old friends that I cannot bear to leave behind.

T. Kingfisher

#44. We're all going to die. Most of us will leave no mark of our existence behind what-so-ever. Not a stain or a smudge or a smear on the face of history. I think that's sad." It made Romney horribly regretful to think that the fat man was right.

Oliver Tidy

#45. Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

Anne Mallory

#46. "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

Brian Tracy

#47. but there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take it's place.

Deborah Ellis

#48. Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.

Henry Cloud