Arundhati Roy Quotes

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

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.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

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

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

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.

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

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

I feel like I've put my demons behind me.

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

Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.

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

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.

You can't live in the past and say, 'if only.' You have to pick up and move along and make the world better.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

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

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.