To Live In The Past Quotes

#1. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.

Ideaswar

#3. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.

Walter Percy

#4. The paradox is that we can become wiser and more compassionate and live more fulfilling lives by refusing to be who we have tended to be in the past. But we must also relax, accepting things as they are in the present, as we strive to change ourselves.

Sam Harris

#5. odd, he thought, how the thought of childhood keeps coming back to me. The result of seeing Clarissa, perhaps; for women live much more in the past than we do, he thought.

Virginia Woolf

#6. We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

Ian Jack

#8. Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

Alan Lightman

#10. We all have pasts and we all have futures. All we can do is choose to live in one or the other. It doesn't seem to me that there's much point living in the past.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#11. I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.

Denis Johnson

#12. Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. There are tenses that define us now: past tense, back then; future tense, not yet. We live in the small window between them, the space we've only recently come to think as still, and really it's no smaller than anyone else's window.

Margaret Atwood

#14. I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

Patricia Norris

#15. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

Dalai Lama

#16. The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

Jacob Braude

#17. Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God's love.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. I feel life I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind.

Jennifer Capriati

#19. Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

Subramanya Bharathi

#20. I want to live so densely. lush. and slow in the next few years, that a year becomes ten years, and my past becomes only a page in the book of my life.

Nayyirah Waheed

#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. Oh life to live, life already lived,
time that comes back in a swell of sea,
time that recedes without turning its head,
the past is not past, it is still passing by,
flowing silently into the next vanishing moment

Octavio Paz

#23. She must continue to live life one day at a time. Neither the past nor the future existed for Eva.
She clenched her fist around her reins, drilling in the words she must never forget: 'there can only be the now.

Amy Jarecki

#24. I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period ... I like to learn from the past ... not 'live' in it.

David Coverdale

#25. Such is the cost immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past.

Alan Lightman

#26. I try not to live in the past ... but ... sometimes the past lives in me

Jamie Ford

#27. Only those with whom you have bound karmic accounts, in the past life, will be able to live with you together.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. Don't worry about the past, it's only a shadow wanting to follow you under the brilliance of the sun. And the future is only the moon, still glowing in honor of the sun. Live in the moment and embrace where life takes you.

Jes Fuhrmann

#29. You have to live in the future, not the past.

Gordon Brown

#30. Maybe it's better this way. You have to live in the present, right? The past is past, and no matter how much time I spend with those pictures, I'm never going to get it back.

Paul Auster

#31. You had me," she whispered, cheeks flushing at the reminder. "I did," he agreed. "But the past isn't what matters. I live in the present, Genna. I live in the now. I had you, yeah, but what I want is to have you.

J.M. Darhower

#32. He was refusing to be beaten by the past or crushed by the future. He was living, as a man ought to live, every fibre of him, in the only moment he ever really possesses - this moment!

David Grayson

#33. If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Oprah Winfrey

#34. When you see your life through the eyes of a dinosaur, albeit parrot, that's when you truly see the magic of God here and now. Stop questioning the past and live in the moment to strive for a better, more promising future. We're all born to make a difference.

Jes Fuhrmann

#35. I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

Uri Geller

#36. In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

Hanya Yanagihara

#37. It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert

#38. The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

Martha Graham

#39. Our cultural roots are the most ancient in the world. The spiritual concepts of our Ancestors gave birth to religious thought African people believe in the oneness of the African family through sacred time, which unites the past, the present and the future. Our Ancestors live with us.

Marimba Ani

#40. It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

#41. I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Henry David Thoreau

#42. A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

Ernest Renan

#43. Each moment, die to the past and remain fresh, and your life will be a great adventure. And it is only for the adventurous people to know what truth is. The non-adventurous live in comfortable lies.

Osho

#44. Doesn't there come a time when you need to bury the past? When you stop using it as excuse to curl up in a ball and not live your life?

Marilyn Grey

#45. Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.

Suzanne Selfors

#46. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#47. I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Igor Stravinsky

#48. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.

Tim Parks

#49. It's good to live in the past. It's sexier here

Tiffany Reisz

#50. Those who continue to live in the past will never have a future!

Beem Weeks

#51. I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Brian Eno

#52. Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.

Deepak Chopra

#53. I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Harold Pinter

#54. If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

Anthony De Mello

#55. To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R.D. Laing

#56. I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

#57. I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.

Joyce Meyer

#58. It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it?

J.K. Rowling

#59. One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

George Fernandes

#60. They that fail to understand their dreams, visions and aspirations in life and the real steps to take to make dreams a reality shall always have realities of life teaching them the had I knows of life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. I live in the past when it comes to movies, but my own career is a matter of remembering the nuts and bolts and things like eating chocolate cake and drinking milk with Jack [Kirby] in his kitchen, but that's all I remember.

Mike Royer

#62. To enjoy the beauty of life, live profoundly in the present moment without the fear of the past or future.

Debasish Mridha

#63. I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

I.M. Pei

#64. A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ... the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.

Evelyn Underhill

#65. My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past

Munia Khan

#66. My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.

Cory Booker

#67. For people who must live from day to day, past and future have small relevance, and their grasp of it is fleeting; they live in the moment, a very precious gift that we have lost.

Peter Matthiessen

#68. The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories - love lives in the present.

Bryant McGill

#69. You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.

Sonia Sotomayor

#70. To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was ...

Pablo Picasso

#71. Im afraid to live in the future because of my past yet i dwell in the past and look forward to change in the future

Cheyenne

#72. The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

Craig McCaw

#73. Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.

Chris Hedges

#74. Never live in the past; were it good to do so, butterflies would crawl back into their cocoons.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#75. I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#76. Don't live in the past, and don't carry the past around like a burden. But simply use your past as one of your mentors to help refine mistakes and make changes you can invest now and the future.

Jim Rohn

#77. I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.

Kate Williams

#78. To enjoy the beauty of life, live in the moment, not in the past or future.

Debasish Mridha

#79. Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but you don't live there anymore.

Richard Templar

#80. When regret dominates your past and worry occupies your future, there is no room to live in your present.

Charles F. Glassman

#81. I intend to live in the beauty of past memories for I know them the best. At this moment, the future is unknown so it will be an adventure for me.

Debasish Mridha

#82. None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

John Dryden

#83. It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.

Mick Rock

#84. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.

Henry David Thoreau

#85. I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.

Winston S. Churchill

#86. To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

Henry Miller

#87. In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

Victoria Moran

#88. Live in the moment. Don't carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and learn from it, but don't carry it on your shoulder. You will feel lighter and be able to enjoy the present and the future.

Debasish Mridha

#89. 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

#90. Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

#91. But how can I learn to live in a world that doesn't include my brother? All my life, I've always been my brother's sister; it's part of my identity, part of who I am. My brother is part of my past; we share a common history. And we had plans for the future.

T.J. Wray

#92. Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Joyce Meyer

#93. Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

Arthur Gordon Webster

#94. I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

Jerry West

#95. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.

S. N. Goenka

#96. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#97. If you separate from ... everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future ... and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Marcus Aurelius

#98. The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Arnold Bennett

#99. I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

Kathryn Schulz

#100. I live on in the sweetness of old days
with strangers who build new dwellings
on blue hills up to the edge of the sky,
I talk softly with the captured trees
and comfort them sometimes.
How slowly time consumes the core of things,
and soundlessly treads fate's heavy heel.

Edith Sodergran