Darren L Johnson Quotes

I used to be.

So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

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?