Tom Petty Quotes

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end - even if it's momentarily.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind