Life Quotes

Every thing has changed but my mind never.

~ Pavankumar Nagaraj

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

~ Abraham Hicks

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

~ Sanhita Baruah

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The past is no good if you can't learn from it; therefore, no sense in dwelling on it.

~ Arians Karlovičs

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

~ Mark Slouka

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

~ Lisa Gardner

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the characters whom you met. This singularity is like the dominant note of every moment of existence; in each moment of life, the life principle itself is unique. The artist therefore tries to grasp that principle and make it incarnate, new each time; and each time he hopes, though in vain, to achieve an exhaustive image of the Truth of human existence. The quality of beauty is in the truth of life.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography forces us to see people before their future weighed down on them. Before they knew their endings.

~ Kate Morton

I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past.

~ Tanya R. Simon

Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.

~ Anne Tyler

You cannot be who you were.

~ D.j. Molles

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

~ Sara Sheridan

Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies - and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words really mean. It's not just the lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from - it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.

~ Colleen Hoover

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

~ Lisa Wingate

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

~ Emily Murdoch

we use to regret over our past... but sometimes i wonder why ???because everything we did in past was best from our side, well in case of both doing and thinking...

~ Lovely Goyal

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

~ Jack Kerouac

I guess sometimes there are moments when people’s lives change and they don’t even know it. They can look back later, when everything's different, and say yes, that was the start of it―that’s when it all began, and I didn't even notice.

~ Robert Swindells

It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.

~ Roisin Turner

Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.

~ Michael E. Moseley

How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

~ Steve Maraboli

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

~ Elizabeth Kostova

Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living.

~ Jill Telford

I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!

~ Kim Yannayon

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.

~ Sarah Van Waterschoot

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

~ Khaled Hosseini

The past is what you take with you.

~ Kate Atkinson

Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.

~ Raymond Carver

Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.

~ Steve Maraboli

This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here… MAKE IT COUNT!

~ Steve Maraboli

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.

~ Simon Reynolds

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

~ Larry Atchley Jr.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

~ Nicholas Sparks

As long as one suffers one lives.

~ Graham Greene

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

~ Pema Chödrön

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

~ Jens Peter Jacobsen

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

~ Hubert Selby Jr.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

~ Haruki Murakami