Past Is Behind You Quotes

#1. Everything is in front of you! Nothing, but the past is behind you. There is no need to look back if you want to go forward!

De Angelo R. Moody

#2. People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Joel Osteen

#3. As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Dani Shapiro

#4. A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

William H Gass

#6. Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.

Abraham J. Twerski

#7. Unforgiveness is a shadow of the past; it is behind you, but you always know it is there. Sorrow and bitterness covers your heart like the darkness covers the night.

Deborah Brodie

#8. The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Doris Lessing

#10. The sadness in your heart is a yesterday you can no longer see, so put it behind you and walk always forward.
Swift Antelope to Amy in Comanche Heart

Catherine Anderson

#11. Ben Says: Your greatness is in your successful future ahead of you. Not in the failures in the past you left behind.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#12. Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

Kate Atkinson

#13. Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

Leon Brown

#14. One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.

Isabel Allende

#15. There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.

Aileene Mhar Jabarani

#16. Caring for someone is scary [ ... ] But you can't fear dictate your life [ ... ] Don't live life hiding behind your past, live right now. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year or a hundred years

Nicole Williams

#17. Truth: You have to talk to a boy-really talk,if you want him to see past the fact that you're not beautiful.
Truth: I'm not beautiful. Or much of a conversationalist.
Truth: I'm not entirely sure that the stuff behind the not-beautiful is going to be all that alluring, either.

Melissa Jensen

#18. It's important to keep your options open.It's important to live and not get s hung up on the past.The past is called the past for a reason.If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead.You don't drive a car that way, so why would you live your life that way?.

Rachel Van Dyken

#19. There is a danger when you leave the past behind, and reinvent your life, that at some point you'll look at yourself, and no longer recognize who you see.

Erin McCarthy

#20. You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

Harry Chapin

#21. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

Claudia Rankine

#22. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

Rachel Van Dyken

#23. Most people can't wait to leave kidhood behind. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt.

Dean Koontz

#24. You can't know what it is like for us now
you will always be one step behind.
Be thankful for that.
You can't know what it was like for us then
you will always be one step ahead.
Be thankful for that, too.

David Levithan

#25. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

Sherman Alexie

#26. Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#27. Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.

Herbert Hoover

#28. You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unreachable. The string ahead is the future. But the only moment we inhabit, the only moment where we can act, is the present, the point where the flame burns, the point where time touches eternity.

Brandon Mull

#29. Always look within, to seek out the love and joy residing inside of you and then look to find your dark shadows falling behind you disappear.

Denis John George