Stop looking at the past and all the things you can’t change. They’re done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go.
—Lacey Weatherford in Chasing Nikki
More quotations tagged with “past”
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
—Charles Lindbergh
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
—Robertson Davies
It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get hung up on the past. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead.
—Rachel Van Dyken in The Bet
My life had gone right; it had gone exactly as it needed to in order to bring me here.
—Beth Harbison in Always Something There to Remind Me
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
—Sydney J. Harris