Past Dwelling Quotes

#1. 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

#2. No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

Kieran Scott

#3. Temperament, he'd only wound up dwelling on Catharine's past.

Maggie Brendan

#4. Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.

Francine Rivers

#5. Dwelling on the past causes us to forfeit the power of the moment.

Shannon Tanner

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

Gaston Bachelard

#9. Dwelling on your past won't get you anywhere you haven't already been.

Nel E. Sherk

#10. I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

Jennifer Aniston

#11. Keep dwelling in the past and you won't see the present.

Jake Bible

#12. If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.

Wynn Bullock

#13. ... 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

#14. It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after

Edgar Pangborn

#15. 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

#16. Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.

Abdullah, Son Of Masud

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?

Rob Liano

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

John Wooden

#25. We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

Marianne Williamson

#26. Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#27. 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

#28. Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.

Andrew Mayne

#29. I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

Jennifer Aniston

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

Emily Giffin

#37. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.

Nicole Sobon

#38. People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present.

Tim I. Gurung

#39. There wasn't any point in dwelling in the pain of the past, not when the future could hold suck pleasure.

Abraham Verghese

#40. 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

#41. ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.

Raymond E. Feist