Life Quotes

More than half of my life is past, I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

~ Amin Maalouf

Your past and your pain will certainly impact you,but they don’t have to define you. You get to write your own definition.

~ Scott Stabile

Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it, But you might not be able to erase completely your past mistakes. So the choices you make today will determine how the book (your life)will look like.

~ Topsy Gift

Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out.

~ Toni Morrison

Sometimes the only way to move forward is to revisit the things in your past that were holding you back. You have to deal with them head on, no matter how scary they may be. Because once we do, you will see that you can go further than you ever imagined.

~ Barry Allen The Flash

There's this quote - if there's anything I have learnt about life is that IT MOVES ONlet me tell you, these three words are only first half of the story. The other half is these five words - YOU HAVE TO LET GOIf you continue to cling to your past, how will your life Ever move on. Some effort is required from your end too.

~ Mansi Laus Deo

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze ofit used to be likes forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.

~ John Connolly

When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( Corporeal prison )

~ Erik Pevernagie

The past is what it is—good and bad, it’s written and unchanging. And there’s solace to be had in that.”Tears pricked her eyes. “What do you mean?”There was a long pause. “The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can’t get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.

~ J.r. Ward

And then you’ll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who’s only yours. And you’ll realize… that this is where your life is.

~ Colm Tóibín

i loved you once but not sure the second will get me back. We know our mistakes and know our past, but we don't know which to blame. these are the last words i will say before we continue our life. Find another lover before you try to love me back.

~ Anthony Castillo

But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now.Aren't we?

~ Patrick Ness

It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.

~ Tony Curl

Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast, it amplifies the great grace of GOD over your life.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.

~ Robert Tew

We shouldn't hide behind anger or anonymity when reliving the past because all that’s happened and all those who belong in our past are part of our story.

~ Melizena

Dwelling on your past won't get you anywhere you haven't already been.

~ Nel E. Sherk

No matter how much you revisit the past, there's nothing new to see.

~ Robert Tew

The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.

~ Robert Tew

A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.

~ Stephen Lozada

I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what my life is; who I am now. I stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive itself became a burden. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.

~ Ishmael Beah

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

~ Robert Tew

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The Question. It’s enjoyable to be the one with all the secrets, but in her honest mind – the hidden part that’s always sleeping – the secrets he keeps about when and if give her a feeling inside she’s never really understood completely – a sensation she had as a child when she got to the end of a fairytale where never-ending love and happiness were all but expected and wondered whether there might be…. one last page.

~ Carla H. Krueger

He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw as overly-moral because he has flaws, he has weaknesses. How would his mistakes compare to her virtuousness? She used to dislike the competitiveness at work, the way she claimed she could never really make friends with anyone because everything was always so fake and cut-throat and he used to berate her for it, used to tell her to accept it, to realise the truth about life and relationships – but she wouldn’t take it. She was always thinking too hard about everything, always questioning her motives. Surely, if he’d married her, she’d have started questioning his.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

~ Carla H. Krueger

You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

~ Debasish Mridha

I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.

~ Debasish Mridha

Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.

~ Debasish Mridha

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.

~ A.j. Darkholme

One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that’s at once your invention and the invention of you.

~ Philip Roth

One minute you are here and the next moment you are some place else, some time a long ago. That is the thing about your mind. Memories. Everything still exists in the folds of your brain; you may try to forget or honestly believe that you have forgotten but nothing is ever erased. Every memory is registered, good or bad does not matter. Sometimes you bring some out on purpose, sometimes some memory jumps at you on its own, shocking you, shaking you, making you realize how far you have come and at the same time proving to you that you can never really go far enough.

~ Arti Honrao

It’s good to live in the past. It’s sexier here

~ Tiffany Reisz

People didn’t know everything then. There were things people had never seen before. Places nobody had ever been. You could make up a story and people would believe it...also maybe it seems like it would be okay not to be perfect. Nobody was perfect back then. Just about everyone was defective, and most people had no choice except to stay that way.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space. Leave the ones who left in the past, right where they belong, and never look back.

~ Ena Snow