All Quotes By Tag: Past

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

“Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out.”

“In magic – and in life – there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ‘Time’ doesn’t pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we’re always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn’t act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we’re going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don’t want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.”

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”

“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.”

“I can’t. You can’t rewrite the past.”

“Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.”

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”