Therese of Lisieux Quotes

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

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.

Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.

All the past is not worth one today.

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

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!

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.