breaking free from the past Quotes

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.