Move Past It Quotes

#1. I know that if I am to move forward like the professional that I am, I must first see the past with mature eyes. And that means acknowledging that others have caused all my problems and blaming them for it.

Stephan Pastis

#2. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.

Joyce Meyer

#4. Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by your past ... not strangled by it.

Steve Maraboli

#5. Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

Ann Aguirre

#6. Sometimes to truly move forward, you have to leave your past behind you,

That includes many things, and many people who were a part of it.

Michael Linen

#7. The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two or three players and is happy to give an assist to a teammate, it makes him more dangerous than ever before.

Michael Laudrup

#8. As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]

Tim Bishop

#9. Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward - or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48

Nick Ortner

#10. So you try, and try, to move past it and forget about them, but it's like they're stuck in your head
you can't just flip a switch and stop loving them! So you hate yourself for it because you know it's no use, but nothing you do seems to ever make a difference.

Abby McDonald

#11. It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

Barack Obama

#12. Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book just turn the page.

Brooklyn Copeland

#13. Life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. ========== Dream Chaser (Kenyon, Sherrilyn)

Anonymous

#14. It's time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant and reliable.

Robert Bryce

#15. My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.

Sue Whitaker

#16. 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

#17. Leading with our heart requires replacing fear with faith. It means releasing the desire to control situations or people, or see the future, or change a past event. We accept our personal power by purposefully leaving no loose ends, so we move from day to day without regret.

Regina Cates

#18. Rejection is a part of any man's life. If you can't accept and move past rejection, or at least use it as writing material - you're not a real man.
-Master Jiraiya

Masashi Kishimoto

#19. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

Nelson Mandela

#20. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

Elif Shafak

#21. Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet ... it's so hard to let them go ... to forget ... to move ahead ...

Danielle Steel

#22. How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future.

Freda Lightfoot

#23. Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past... It's gone! Learn from it and move on...

Assegid Habtewold

#24. Let nothing distract you from your opponent. He is between you and the rest of your life, and you must move past him to see it.

Scott James Magner

#25. It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.

Debbie Ford

#26. My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Paulo Coelho

#27. Time does not move linearly just because we think it does. And the past does not cease to exist simply because we have moved beyond it.

Charline Ratcliff

#28. Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don't become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don't remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

Les Brown

#29. We cannot move forward if we allow the past to pull us back.

Rodrigo Duterte

#30. Always move towards the light even if you stumble on your path cause it casts a shadow on the miseries of our past.

Andy Flynn

#31. Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.

Oli Anderson

#32. Never regret your past. You have to move on and learn from it.

Taylor Swift

#33. If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

Lorraine Heath

#34. You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

Caroline Wozniacki

#35. They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.

Sara Quin

#37. The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

Jud Wilhite

#38. We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It's how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won't let us move forward.

Tucker Elliot

#39. One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

Guy Oseary

#40. I get it. How do you move past something like this? But wouldn't it be quite a thing if you could?

Elizabeth Finn

#41. I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Craig Ferguson

#42. It's easy to lock your heart with hatred. But only when it's free will you be able to move forward without pain anchoring you to a past that's holding you back.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#43. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.

Lisa Brooks

#44. It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Angelina Jolie

#45. The past is a black, heavy thing. It will quietly smother our spirits if we let it. You must make peace with it and move forward.

Sarah McCoy

#46. I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

Rick Yancey

#47. We have a choice. To be bitter and angry, or to try and move on. It's the hardest thing for me, letting go of all that righteous anger. I'm still struggling. But that's what I want to do.

Kim Edwards

#48. My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

Stephanie Gilmore

#50. Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

Mary Balogh

#51. I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.

Anthony Hopkins

#52. The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.

Odo Simon Agbo

#53. Angela, Angela," Kami said. "We can dwell on the past or we can move into the future!"
"I can hide your body in these piles of boxes. Nobody will ever find it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#54. Getting unstuck is a matter of choice. If you want flourish in life make a choice today to move into that reality. You can do it.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#55. Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher)
You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#56. You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.

Tabitha Suzuma

#57. Pause and remember - The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!

Jennifer Young

#58. I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

Sarah McLachlan

#59. Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

Danica Patrick

#60. The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice.

Raymond E. Feist

#61. Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong.

Penny Jordan

#62. It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Mary E. DeMuth

#63. It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it.

Tony Curl

#64. You can't have a future until you accept the past. That doesn't mean you have to live the way you used to, but it does mean you can't deny what made you who you are. You made mistakes. Own them and move on.

Tammy L. Gray

#65. Still leaning against the handrail, I studied the firefly. Neither I nor it made a move for a very long time. The wind continued sweeping past the two of us while the numberless leaves of the zelkova tree rustled in the darkness.

Haruki Murakami

#66. With Metavoid, I wanted to move forward with the Lustmord sound, rather than recreating past works such as Heresy or Black Stars, I wanted to create a sound that was new, but which was also unmistakably Lustmord. It's for others to decide if I failed or succeeded.

Brian Williams

#67. Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command

Israelmore Ayivor

#68. There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#69. You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I've turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.

Tiger Woods

#70. When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.

Robert Greene

#71. I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#72. Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

John De Ruiter

#73. You don't forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be

Jessica Sorensen

#74. Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#75. After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Leo Buscaglia

#76. It must be hard to move past the physical reminders of people you love.

Colleen Hoover

#77. It's like that sometimes for people who have had traumatic experiences in their past life. It's hard to move on, to belong, in one place when you have unresolved business in another.

Amanda Gray

#78. And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

Carrie Underwood

#79. You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

John Lydon

#80. The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath.

Jose Saramago

#81. Moving on is not about forgetting the past; it's about learning from it. Find the message in the mess ... Cry. Forgive. Learn. That's moving on.

Steve Maraboli

#82. As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.

Stephen Richards

#83. Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#84. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Bernie Siegel

#85. Vividly seeing that love had always been my mother's guide, I could finally release my anger - let go of it there in the woods - and move past it.

Aspen Matis

#86. You can't get back the time in the past. You can't change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.

J.B. McGee

#87. You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

Kemi Sogunle

#88. I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run.

Soichiro Honda

#89. I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.

Robert Downey Jr.

#90. It is impossible to move forward with one foot planted in the past.

Charles F. Glassman

#91. Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

John Shelton Reed

#92. Letting go isn't about having the courage to release the past; it's about having the wisdom to embrace the present.

Steve Maraboli

#93. Sometimes it's just a zen thing and it means shutting the noise out and forming a plan and realizing that as long as it's not going to kill you then you just need to breathe and move past it,

Chuck Wendig

#94. Adam was told to toughen up. Get over it. We hear this a lot. History is in the past, bad things happened but it is time to move on. But history is not past for us. Adam

Stan Grant

#95. But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it's been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded - that's how I feel about her. She wasn't there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed.

Laura Miller

#96. Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on.

Vikrmn

#97. Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?

Alexander McCall Smith

#98. Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

Sue Augustine

#99. As in other tests it was now the moment of decision; she was given a final chance to reverse the inevitable course of destiny - ever does free will move through the gate that binds the past and future.

Don Bradley

#100. Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.

Tom Althouse