Obsessing Over The Past Quotes

#1. Make a conscious effort to live in the present today. When you catch yourself obsessing over the past or worrying about the future just remember you are exactly where you need to be right now.

Demi Lovato

#2. More often than not, it's better to give up thinking, worrying and obsessing, in favour of faith that things will work out fine.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#3. Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time

Anne Hathaway

#4. This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

Thom Yorke

#5. It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!

Nate Lowman

#6. Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Anne Lamott

#7. This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.

Jodi Picoult

#8. I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

Matthew Perry

#9. The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Bob Beauprez

#10. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

Dan Pallotta

#11. We discover the vast difference between living and feeling alive when we discover inspiration." The quickest way to true happiness is not by ambling and obsessing about the limited pursuit of happiness, but by the immediate and actionable pursuit to be inspired.

Elaina Marie

#12. Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.
Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Gyan Nagpal

#13. I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.

Ada Limon

#14. But if love were convenient there wouldn't be millions of songs and movies and books obsessing over it, or therapists and doctors consoling all the people falling in and out of it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#15. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y.

Ryan Holiday

#16. Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

Brad Pitt

#17. I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.

Dan Pearce

#18. Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

Chris Thile

#20. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

Kien Nguyen

#21. I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Danny Strong

#22. As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.

Cassandra Clare

#23. Each would collapse beneath the process. We've just wrongly assumed that it has to happen all at once, and we give up at the thought of it. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y. We

Ryan Holiday

#24. Obsessing about one medium versus another is a waste of energy - it is the cultivation and management of ideas, and the people who generate them, that is the crucial factor.

John Hegarty

#25. We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.

Dan Poblocki

#26. I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

D.J. Cotrona

#27. You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.

Gina Greenlee

#28. I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

Woody Allen

#29. I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

Dan Chaon

#30. am i crazy for laying awake at night obsessing over you or is it natural

Katelyn Douglas

#31. People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

Dougie Poynter

#32. Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Rob Brezsny