Susanna Kearsley Quotes

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

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

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

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.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

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.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

I don't believe in yesterday.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.