Terry Goodkind Quotes

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.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

You have to live in the future, not the past.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

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

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

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

For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

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.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

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.

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

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

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

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.