Libba Bray Quotes

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

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

I don't live in the past.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

I absolutely love and respect the past, but I'm not a 'glory days' guy. I love where we've been and love where I'm at and going.

I'm not the type of person that lives in the past, quite honestly.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

I am not living in the past.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

Nothing is ever behind us.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

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.