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

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Past Present Future, Anxiety Depression

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Storm Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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