Chris Smalling Quotes

I don't really regret anything in my life.

It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.

There is maybe a danger of dwelling on the past, but I think that's far less dangerous than moving forward without learning and not being able to find joy in happy memories and things like that.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

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.

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.

All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

I like the fact I've got a past to learn from, but I don't want to wish my life away, either.

I'm always thankful for the stuff I went through and thankful for the people I've met, and I'm thankful even for some of the bad times because all of it helps get you to wherever you are in your life.

You tend to take your journey for granted after a while, but when I pause and look back, I feel blessed that I had so many opportunities.

Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I believe my past is my strength.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.