Lauren Kate Quotes

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.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.

Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. And never judge anything of the past from the new perspective that is arriving, because the new is new, incomparably new and the old was right in its own context, and the new is right in its own context.

It's okay to look back, just don't stare.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

I think we all have a need to know what we do not need to know.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.