Jimmy Cliff Quotes

I can't stay stuck in the past.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

I am not among those who engage in nostalgia, because I think that locks you into a moment in time without thinking about where you are, what needs to be done now.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

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.

I don't like to look too far back into the past.

I want to talk more about the future than the past.

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

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

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.