Leaving The Past Quotes

• The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Character

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  Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  Edna Ferber

  Lonely, Past, People

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

  Immortal Technique

  Past, Leaving, Technique

  Song: Leaving The Past, 2003

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• I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

  Beryl Markham

  Moving On, Distance, Believe

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• It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Real, Moving, Successful

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• You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

  Lisa Mangum

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Cat, Past

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.

  Beryl Markham

  Yesterday, Way, I Have Learned

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

  Susannah Cahalan

  Moving, Past, Behinds

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• Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift
  i guess thats why its the present

  Joe Budden

  Past, Today, Tomorrow

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• We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Determination, Regret, Moving

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• The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.

  Debbie Ford

  Warrior, Past, Inner Strength

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• 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

  Blow, Past, Doors

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free

  Christina Aguilera

  Goodbye, Children, Reflection

  Song: Lotus Intro, Album: Lotus, 2012

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• 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

  Past, Yesterday, Thunderstorm

  "The Tunnel". Book by William H. Gass, www.drmardy.com. 1995.

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• The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Way, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

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• There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

  Jay Weatherill

  Past, Opportunity, Different

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• For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Writing, Past

  Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

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• Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.

  M. L. Stedman

  Past, Sometimes

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Wave bye-bye to your cash cow, 'cause it's leaving the pasture.

  Jimmy McGill

  Past, Bye, Leaving

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