Living in the Past Quotes

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

People who think about the past have no future.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other.

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

I don't want to live on my past performances and say that I did well then.

Past glories are poor feeding.

I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.