#present

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#letting-go-of-the-past #living-in-the-moment #living-in-the-past #living-in-the-present #moving-on

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#living-in-the-present #positive-thinking #seizing-the-day #the-future #the-past

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#enjoy #future #happens #neither #nor

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment. ↗

— John Kuypers

#inspirational-quotes #present-moment #self-improvement #inspirational

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #atmosphere #certain #closeness #clubs

Wait for tomorrow To think tomorrow's thoughts. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#living-in-the-present #inspirational

Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one creates from what one has learned. Imagination uses what it needs and discards the rest— where you want to erect a museum. Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#past #present #white-oleander #imagination

Your parents brought you to this world; they may, or may not have done their best to raised you, but today, it is up to you to make your own life. Baby sea turtles don’t complain their parents left them there to hatch alone, many other animals have no parents from the very beginning, they just know they have to survive, they have to make the best with what they have, animals get it! They just LIVE THEIR LIFE. Make an effort to leave behind whatever is causing you to be stuck in the past, abandon the resentment you have toward your parents, you have to move on, just do it! Live your life! ↗

— Martin Suarez

#life-lessons #live-your-life #move-on #past #present

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#present #story #storytelling #change

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#artists #big #big heart #comic #dwells