Cling To The Past Quotes

#1. To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.

Heinrich Boll

#2. The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Tim O'Reilly

#3. To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment.

Milton William Cooper

#4. Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Louise J. Kaplan

#5. In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

Wade Davis

#6. I'd rather welcome change than cling to the past.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#7. There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

Rajneesh

#8. In every moment a choice exists. We can cling to the past or embrace the inevitability of change and allow a brighter future to unfold before us.

Julie Plec

#9. Fiona says that I have trouble moving on. That I cling to the past ... I knew that I would miss it. I'd miss the way my life used to be when I worked there. I always miss the way my life used to be, and the best way to prevent that is to not change my life very much.

Leila Sales

#10. It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future.

Sandra Brown

#11. Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

Anthony Trollope

#12. We stubbornly cling to past interpretations and old stories even when God's universal story is much better. The reason is not that we lack education and knowledge, but that we overflow with pride.

Nancy B. Winters

#13. Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

Asa Don Brown

#14. People are constantly changing and growing.do not cling to a limited disconnected, negative image of a person in the past.see that person now.your relationship is always live and changing.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we fear that emotion will never come our way again.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. The mountain is your mother," Stonesnake had told him during an easier climb a few days past. "Cling to her, press yourself against her teats, and she won't drop you.

George R R Martin

#17. Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people ... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

David Weber

#18. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

#19. The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

James Frey

#20. The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

Grace King

#21. He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

George Eliot

#22. An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn't represent what that being is forever; it is only an expression of that being's suffering. And if we cling to resentment over past hurts, we simply increase our own suffering.

Noah Levine

#23. If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force.

Dawn M. Turner

#24. We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

Sue Augustine

#25. I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Carlos Castaneda

#26. Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Brian L. Weiss

#27. Cling tightly to hope, just as you have in the past, my dear. Evil can't rule forever. I truly believe that.

Lisa Schroeder

#28. Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.

Auliq Ice

#29. There was something about the past - the reassurance that others had lived and loved and survived before me gave me something to cling to in the present.

Karen White

#30. When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Kate McGahan

#31. At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

Isaac Asimov

#32. If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

Myles Munroe