Living In The Past Quotes

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.

Sparky Anderson

Volleyball, Past, People

Sparky Anderson, Dan Ewald (1990). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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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.

Mick Jagger

Clever, Regret, Past

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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.

Mike Ditka

Believe, Past, Coward

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Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

Bryant H. McGill

Letting Go, Past, Wonderful

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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

Michael Connelly

Moving On, Heartbreak, Letting Go

Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”

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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.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Dream, Past, Self

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Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore.

Nicky Gumbel

Past, Judging, Persons

Twitter post from Mar 14, 2013

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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.

Carlos Santana

Past, Thinking, People

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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.

Marianne Williamson

Order, Divine Right, Perfection

FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 12, 2011

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Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

Prentice Mulford

Past, Prejudice

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I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

Black Hawk

Philosophy, Past, Feet

Song: Like There Ain't No Yesterday, Album: Strong Enough

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

Marvin Davis

Motivational, Past, Focus

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Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

Marianne Williamson

Inspirational, Past, Chains That Bind

FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 11, 2013

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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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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

Moving On, Wise, Moving Forward

"Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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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.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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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Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

Tony Evans

Inspirational, Christian, Letting Go

FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Apr 10, 2012

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I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Jeffrey McDaniel

Break Up, Heartbroken, Letting Go

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If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Laozi

Tao Te Ching, Past Present Future, Anxiety Depression

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... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

Neale Donald Walsch

Truth, Past, Data

FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 22, 2014

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My soul is not a palace of the past.

James Russell Lowell

Past, Soul, Palaces

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.

Joel Osteen

Mirrors, Today, Life Is

Twitter post from Apr 15, 2016

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