Quotes About Past Relationships

#1. Past relationships are nothing more than a collection of songs you can no longer listen to.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#2. I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Conor McPherson

#3. The Bible tells us clearly what our parameters are and how to protect them, but often our family, or other past relationships, confuses us about our parameters.

Henry Cloud

#4. I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

Terrence J

#5. The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

Kate Bosworth

#6. I mean, aren't we all tormented by past relationships?

Alex Rosa

#7. I wish you the wisdom to recognize where your past relationships were poisoned ... and the strength to break the cycle of accepting less than you deserve.

Steve Maraboli

#8. Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.

Kristy Hinze

#9. Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

Faraaz Kazi

#10. Every Adventure Has a Back Story. When we look at our past relationships, often there are one or two we may tend to go back to in our minds, and we see them through the magic of the seven veils.

Barbara Becker Holstein

#11. Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

Wayne Dyer

#12. The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

Richard Paul Evans

#13. If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn't worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.

Kristen Crockett

#14. Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#15. Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.

Sharon Gannon

#16. Not just Ricky, all my past relationships with men had been like a spate of pesky diseases - each more formidable than the other. It was almost as if I had run a 'sucky boyfriends marathon' or something, and won.

Shuchi Singh Kalra

#17. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

Louise Hay

#18. Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

Tom Odell

#19. If you want to attract the right man or woman in your life, you must heal first any issues from the past.

Linda Alfiori

#20. Don't use your past romantic relationships As a template for your new relationship. Every person is different. You yourself are now different. Make it new, make it better, make it great.

Sienna McQuillen

#21. But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the ugly wreck of the past lay revealed again, its shadow lying darkly over everything they tried to rebuild.

Robert Galbraith

#22. Maybe relationships were a force of forward motion, creating something new out of the present and future, until eventually that became shared past.

Anonymous

#23. If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

Leon Brown

#24. You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them ...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be ...

Sanhita Baruah

#25. Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

Christina Westover

#26. Once an event has taken place, since you cannot alter the past, all that is left to you is your response.

Chris Prentiss

#27. The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

Sanhita Baruah

#28. Nakajima's past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That's what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.

Banana Yoshimoto

#29. People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

Robyn Donald

#30. Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for far too long. When someone else can take us from the ghost-town of our inner-selves, to exciting new landscapes, it's worth the risk, just to feel reborn.

Jaeda DeWalt

#31. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.

Avril Carruthers

#32. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

Ray Dalio

#33. I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.

Leona Lewis

#34. When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

Darren Johnson

#35. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

Steve Maraboli

#36. I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

Coco J. Ginger

#37. Love yourself ... enough to take the actions required for your happiness ... enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past ... enough to set a high standard for relationships ... enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner ... enough to forgive yourself ... enough to move on.

Steve Maraboli

#38. If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.

Donna Lynn Hope

#39. Of course the edges of the wound struggle to close up
and the clock wants to be set going
(how awkward to be pointing permanently to half past one)
amputated limbs feel phantom pain

Katarina Mazetti

#40. Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Brian L. Weiss

#41. Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#42. You see her for who she really is, past all the disillusions most people get tangled up in when they think they are falling in love. You accept her flaws, and you love her just as much because of them as you do in spite of them.

Blakney Francis

#43. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Carla H. Krueger

#44. So I'm delighted to open up a bit about these particular details, in honor of Valentine's Day (when every balding, chubby, and short actuary wants people - especially the babes out there - to know about his studly past"
From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story

Zack Love

#45. I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.

Joyce Meyer

#46. Look to the past to see what the future holds.

Celia Conrad

#47. Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.

Keshia Chante

#48. Apart from the added efficiency, the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation. Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed,

Raghuram G. Rajan

#49. You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

Josephine Humphreys

#50. With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

Dean Ornish

#51. Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.

Brian L. Weiss

#52. There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts ... memories can't be enough.

Eiry Nieves

#53. Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.

Ann Patchett

#54. Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.

John Steinbeck

#55. Break any ties - good or bad, emotional or spiritual - with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Stormie O'martian

#56. I wait until her breathing is soft and even against me before I let myself drift off to sleep, like I've been doing every night for the past few weeks. Slowly, everything in my life is turning into putting her first, and I'm not going to fight it.

Carian Cole

#57. My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.

Jennifer Lopez

#58. Our past gives us the experience and perspective to embrace today and plan for tomorrow

Levett & Pia Washington

#59. The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.

Bella Andre

#60. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past:

Italo Calvino

#61. That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

Jon Hurwitz

#62. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#63. My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.

Enrique Iglesias

#64. One's entire life - his mental state, his health, his relationships, the material gains that he may or may not make - are all effects which have been set in motion by causes to be found somewhere in one's background, in this life or previous ones.

Brad Steiger

#65. Time doesn't always heal all wounds.

A.J. Darkholme

#66. Because in the past words have only driven them apart.

Jodi Picoult

#67. (She) got herself a real boyfriend and she was just crazy about him. Not jack rabbit naked and coyote howling crazy, but sugar 'n' butter, soft 'n' sweet crazy.

Jackson Burnett

#68. Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.

Sam Owen

#69. 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

#70. Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Donata Joseph

#71. Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.

Vironika Tugaleva

#72. I wore combat boots for two albums, then I went into more of the sparkle and glamour. The older that I've become, I've felt very connected to fashion, especially this past year working with [stylist] Kate Young and creating these relationships with people that I never had before.

Selena Gomez

#73. You're just another story I can't tell anymore.

Pleasefindthis

#74. I'm in a pocket of glowing light, protected from complicated relationships and huge mistakes, past and future.

Lauren Fox

#75. Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.

Marie Kondo

#76. Never judge someone by their relatives.

Charles Martin

#77. By picking him up again, i guess you're just lost, baby. Lost.

Ariel Seraphino

#78. Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed.

Carlos Wallace

#79. To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.

Jeff Lemire

#80. At that moment, I knew we could last past the end of summer. That with Parker, I could make a long-distance relationship work.That relationships were a lot like roller coasters. filled with highs and lows, terrifying split seconds, and awesome moments when you simply enjoy the ride.

Rachel Hawthorne

#81. Of course she'll move away from me, and likely from here, because she is my daughter, because she is a daughter in the twenty-first century. But we can be her fall-back plan, and her stash of memories. Her deep and wide past.

Liz Stephens

#82. There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.

Kary Mullis

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

Kemi Sogunle

#84. Release your past into the universe and embrace your future with opened arms.

Delma Pryce

#85. Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Carla H. Krueger

#86. I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.

Bridget Davis

#87. My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.

Ruth Ahmed

#88. Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.

Shannon Mullen

#89. An also, from the opposite perspective, it can be quite disappointing, when the one you want to share your life with will not share very much of his or her own life with you. The person who will not share their past is unlikely to see you in their future.
Love Professor - to Jennifer

Jennifer Cox

#90. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#91. Time heals the wounds of the past,
Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance
does lighten the scars.

Rhoendyl RCruz

#92. If you keep holding on to the past, the pain will never go away.

Jessamine Verzosa

#93. Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.

Sarah Hall

#94. When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

Sarah Jessica Parker

#95. Truth is the basis of all healing.

Barbara Schmidt

#96. Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#97. I know you're just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you're just the dream inside of a dream And don't worry, I know I don't know you, anymore.

Pleasefindthis

#98. Maybe we don't get a long past. Maybe we just get a future.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#99. It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past.

Mohsin Hamid

#100. To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.

Anthony Liccione