Sylvia Day Quotes

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

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 ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

There ain't no future in the past.

I don't live in the past.

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.

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

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

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

I absolutely love and respect the past, but I'm not a 'glory days' guy. I love where we've been and love where I'm at and going.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

I'm not the type of person that lives in the past, quite honestly.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.