Samantha Bond Quotes

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.