There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.
In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past.
In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.
Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.
The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".
And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.
As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.
We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.