Stuck In The Past Quotes

“Consider that the path you were once on was meant to end when it did. Obsessing about plans lost or changed is a barrier to holistic wealth because it keeps you stuck in the past and unable to move forward.”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness

“An image from one of the photographs comes back to him. He tries to push it away and focus on the present, but he sees the past.”
― Renée Knight, Disclaimer

“Your life will become more fulfilling when you loose the anger, stress, anxiety and “poor me” attitude. Let it go.”
― Germany Kent

“I have found in my years of work that getting stuck is a rather ubiquitous theme and shows itself in a multitude of ways, affecting and even arresting personal development, intellectual discovery, scientific progress and political and religious innovation. It is quite clear and evident that humans get stuck, and stubbornly so, but can souls? From years of experience, I can say that indeed our aerial selves, composed of unique personalities and free will can and have lost their way at times.”
― Stephen Poplin, Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook

“From time to time I have come across personalities stuck in dilemmas. They were so enmeshed into the pain or drama that even death did not ease the pain. Ghosts are earthbound, with some issue or trouble holding them down. Surprisingly, sometimes this wayward journey was experienced before and after death.”
― Stephen Poplin, Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook

“It’s so overwhelming when you notice how the clock ticks; so many tiny pieces holding each other together just so it keeps going. We are like clocks, too! Always ticking to the tocks. When the pieces of our soul are torn away or broken – we can’t be sent to the mending shop, however. So how do we get better? Workable? Thoughts can be tiring, at times. Or maybe it’s the same time – who knows? The clock is broken. Meh.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“I missed Simon. But calling him would be useless. When it came down to Faire or me, I knew where his priorities lay. He was stuck in the past, and until he could move on, there was nothing there for me.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Met

“If you feel stuck, move. You're not a tree.”
― Germany Kent

“Seamed a certain way, they seemed just the same: she was an extrovert, with a style stuck in the period she'd experienced the most fun; he was an introvert, with an intellect entwined at the harbor he'd ensured the most safe.”
― Criss Jami

“Getting stuck in the past is like guarding a cemetery.”
― Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese: La ballade de la mer salée

“It’s so hard to write a new story when you do everything by the book.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.”
― Sam Lipsyte, Venus Drive

“Your past is not your destiny. You can change your future at any moment.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“The thought comes so suddenly and so unbidden I know it's true. Everyone's kept moving forward, following their path, changing with the times. They've grown up and I'm still the angry young man playing with dead things. I've just gotten better at it is all.”
― Stephen Blackmoore, Dead Things

“[There are some] beliefs you currently believe, that are in your way. (...) You believe so much in them. And we understand why you believe in them.
Because: when you believe something, you offer a vibration about it, and you KEEP RECREATING it. So, something that happened a long time ago, you keep renewing your membership to. You keep bringing it forwards. And so, then the memory, which could be very slight or non-existent at this point, is really active and alive, because you talked about it today. And you talked about it yesterday. And you talked about it the day before, even if it had happened 20 years ago.

And so, when people encounter you, you are a fresh new person. And if you are like most humans, you are regurgitating a lot of old stuff. So, things don´t change very much, if that´s what is going on with you.

Oh, different faces and different places, but same old, same old!
Because you continue to offer this same old belief-patterns.”
― Abraham Hicks

“Unfold your today beyond your yesterday, or else, there'll be no tomorrow, only decay.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“When we see that the story is the way we live our lives, only then can we start to change, a day at a time. We try to help people like us, try to make the world around us a little better. It's then that the story begins.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 41

Don't worship your past,
At the expense of your present.
Don't glorify the future,
At the expense of the present.
Don't worship the dead,
At the expense of the living.
Don't admire the unborn,
While overlooking the living.
It's only by lifting the living that,
We build a better world for all progeny.
It's only by being kind to the living,
That we truly honor our ancestry.
Honor is earned not begged for.
Honor the living, ‘n all time will be grateful.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“The past is nowhere to abandon your present.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“The worst thing that humans do to themselves is stick with a past moment and wait for the same moment to repeat to fix it in a better way.”
― Veronica Braila, Blue House: Ten Years on The Way Home

“No sé por qué no puedo amar a la Naturaleza; tan terrible, tan hosca y magnifica como es a veces… Yo creo que he perdido el gusto por lo colosal. El tictac de mis relojes me despierta los sentidos más que el viento en los desfiladeros… Yo estoy cerrado”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“There is no such thing as a bad emotion - the only bad emotions are stuck emotions.”
― Lillian Bridges, Face Reading in Chinese Medicine