Emma Lazarus Quotes

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

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

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

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

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.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

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 past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

There ain't no future in the past.

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

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.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.