Moving Beyond the Past Quotes

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore.

I really hate looking back. think it's useless. The only way is forward.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

Hopefully, through all aspects of life, you learn from things you've got right, things you've got wrong, but I'm not one for looking back. I'm looking ahead; you've got to.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it.

The past is just something that's over.

We can only go forward; we can't go back.

I don't want to have so many exes.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

I never like to think about going back; I only look forward.

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.