Mike Webster Quotes

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

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.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

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

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a 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.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Every moment wasted looking back prevents us from moving forward.

I'm not the Towie girl I once was, I'm not that girl anymore.

As I get older, there's this new realisation and it's almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be who I once was, but only who I want to become.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

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

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

I used to be someone.