Leaving The Past Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Immortal Technique, Gautama Buddha, William H. Gass, Edna Ferber, Dani Shapiro and many others.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
As a fiction writer, that’s been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.
To move foward, you have to leave the past behind
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.
You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?
Wave bye-bye to your cash cow, ’cause it’s leaving the pasture.
To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I’ve become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn’t. Time wasn’t a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There’s an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift
i guess thats why its the present
i guess thats why its the present
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