Tariq Ali Quotes

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

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

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

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

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

No matter what you've been through or what's going on ahead, a fresh start's always good.

Whatever you did in the past is quickly forgotten.

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 don't like talking about bygones.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.