Ann Landers Quotes

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.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing.

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here.

And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

Only the soul that loves is happy

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

There are people in the world who 1,000% will love you just the way you are. So no matter what, keep that in mind.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.