Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

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.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

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.

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.

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

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.

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

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.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.