Quotes on Living In The Past

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.