Moving On From the Past Quotes

I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.

The past is past. There is no point in repeating what you did in the past.

When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are.

To me, I don't like to look back; I just like to look forward.

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

I don't like to look too far back into the past.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

I don't look back on anything; I'm always looking forward.

I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.

I am not a player anymore.

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

I think I'm generally quite good at being able to put things in the past and let them go, as it were.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

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

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.