Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

For once, I didn't look back.

If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

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.

Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life.

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

I don't talk about the past.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Forget the past.