Oscar Wilde Quotes

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.

Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

I don't believe in yesterday.