Jeff Buckley Quotes

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

I absolutely love and respect the past, but I'm not a 'glory days' guy. I love where we've been and love where I'm at and going.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

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.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.

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.