People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.
Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.
There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.
Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.
Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
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