Quotes on Forget The Past

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.