Jack LaLanne Quotes

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

There is growth. Get out of the past.

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

You can't live off your past.

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.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Take what you have learned, and move on.

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.