Top 84 Dwelling On The Past Quotes
#1. If we are talking about choice and regret, what has happened cannot be undone. And dwelling on the past changes nothing. You will only drive yourself to insanity if you do.
Julie Kagawa
#2. Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#3. Nothing else mattered today. I lived within the minutes I was in - not dwelling on the past, or fearing the future. I just let the day present itself as it would, and it couldn't have been better.
Rebecca Donovan
#4. All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.
Frederick Lenz
#5. I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.
Jennifer Aniston
#6. But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#7. Dwelling on the past causes us to forfeit the power of the moment.
Shannon Tanner
#8. Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
Francine Rivers
#9. No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.
Kieran Scott
#10. Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on - information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.
Mark Williams
#11. The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...
Harriet Martineau
#12. People make mistakes. Get over it. You thought he was Mr Right but you were wrong. He thought you were his angel but he was wrong. Dwelling on the past will get you nowhere.
Holly Chamberlin
#13. Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.
Deepak Chopra
#14. There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. I like cottage cheese. That's why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Tent cheese? Mobile home cheese? Do not eat mobile home cheese in a tornado.
Mitch Hedberg
#16. Forces. If God's people remain in the world, God cannot do anything. But if they are willing to be rescued from the world unto God, God can work out His purpose on the earth to have His dwelling place.
Witness Lee
#17. I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
John Burnside
#18. The only way you can own this moment is to evict the victim mentality from the dwelling of your mind.
Steve Maraboli
#19. I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.
Jennifer Aniston
#20. The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.
Franz Liszt
#21. A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
Henry Ward Beecher
#22. It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects ... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.
Anatol Rapoport
#23. I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let
Leo Tolstoy
#24. Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.
Leigh Hunt
#25. Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity; there are some things in the world that are good but not pleasant and others that are pleasant but not good. But to live in peace is both pleasant and good.
Thomas Brooks
#26. Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
Richard Paul Evans
#27. Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
A.B. Simpson
#28. Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.
Andrew Mayne
#29. I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.
John Clare
#30. The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
Martin Heidegger
#31. Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.
Alfred Bester
#32. In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.
Timothy Snyder
#33. Suddenly feeling overwhelmed, Talon said, 'It doesn't matter. They are all dead.' He felt moisture gathering in his eyes and blinked. 'It's been a while since I've felt that.'
Caleb nodded. 'It never goes away, completely. But you'll discover other things in life.
Raymond E. Feist
#34. Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.
Raymond E. Feist
#35. There's no use dwelling on the things you could have changed. Believe me. Too much reflection on all the could-haves and should-haves will only hold you in your past.
Karina Halle
#36. ... dwelling and planning is bullshit," he says. "You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you say stagnant in the same place all your life." His eyes lock on mine. "Live in the moment.
J.A. Redmerski
#37. Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.
Raymond E. Feist
#38. One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
Nicole Green
#39. ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.
Raymond E. Feist
#40. People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present.
Tim I. Gurung
#42. Perhaps no answer would ever be forthcoming, but if he had learned one thing in the last couple of weeks, it was that they must move on. Dwelling in the past would accomplish nothing.
Jaye L. Knight
#43. The term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes.
Meg Cabot
#44. Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Wallace Stevens
#45. A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
Eric Maisel
#46. Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.
Kate Atkinson
#47. Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.
Laozi
#48. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#49. Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
W. Mitchell
#50. The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal bodies which have dragged them down into sin, but with the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth, so that "the dwelling of God is with humans" (Revelation 21:3).
N. T. Wright
#51. The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.
Honore De Balzac
#52. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried ... Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ ... In cases of marriage and family, ... we can end up destroying so many others.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#53. When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.
Albert E Cliffe
#54. Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
Iris Dement
#55. We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#56. Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
A.W. Tozer
#57. For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle. The
Soren Kierkegaard
#58. Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. "Victorious and dead," some muttered, "is a poor sort of victory.
M.L. Stedman
#59. feed ur destiny and not ur history. stop dwelling on your disappoinments but prepare for your Appointments
Ikechukwu Joseph
#60. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
Jane Austen
#61. I am a living soul dwelling on a planet that is afloat in a universe radiant with life. I feel so small and at the same time so uniquely privileged to partake in that inconceivable mystery.
Yossi Ghinsberg
#62. Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
Victor Hugo
#63. Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border. By
Walter D. Mignolo
#64. By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern, and so on.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. her down. She was limited by biology and her flightsuit. Dwelling on her own constraints gave Molly another crazy idea. She recognized the old Tchung ship designs they were up against. If the missiles
Hugh Howey
#66. Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.
Yunho
#67. So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
E. O. Wilson
#68. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!
James Hogg
#69. Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.
Amy Stewart
#70. I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man ...
William Wordsworth
#71. The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.
Jim Cymbala
#72. Theologian Stephen Crites says sacred stories are like dwelling places - like booths or tabernacles. We don't tell these stories as much as we inhabit them.
Sarah Arthur
#73. He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration ... just letting them drift gently past.
Agatha Christie
#75. Then we feel the divine nature dwelling in everything, and encounter the One in everything.
Ilchi Lee
#76. Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
William Shakespeare
#77. In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
Henry Ward Beecher
#78. They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.
George Meredith
#79. In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Laozi
#80. It's always the right time to live the big goals and dreams and to leave behind dwelling on the little nightmares.
Robert J. Braathe
#81. The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.
Khalil Gibran
#82. We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
Marianne Williamson
#83. The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.
Stefan Zweig
#84. Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.
John Wooden
