Living In The Past Quotes Page 2

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now.

It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past;

it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us.

We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

We are all our own graveyards, I believe;

we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

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.

In the West the past is like a dead animal.

It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

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

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

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

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.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

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

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads.

We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is.

The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do;

they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past.

I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.