Barbara Taylor Bradford Quotes

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

I look forward and see myself look back.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

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

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

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 look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.

Life can only be understood backwards.

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.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

I do not have a philosophy about retrospectives. Of course, I cannot change what I have done. What I am doing today, this I can change, in view of whatever I have done before. My retrospectives are like a series of ghosts.

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.