Louise Hay Quotes

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

There is maybe a danger of dwelling on the past, but I think that's far less dangerous than moving forward without learning and not being able to find joy in happy memories and things like that.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I don't live in the past.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.