quotations about yesterday
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow,
And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
JOHN DONNE
"An Anatomy of the World", The Complete English Poems
Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
SAMUEL BECKETT
"Proust", Samuel Beckett: Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism
What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you ...
JAMES A. MURPHY
The Waves of Life: Quotes and Daily Meditations
The man who wastes today lamenting yesterday will waste tomorrow lamenting today.
PHILIP BASKIN
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Don't let your yesterday ruin your today. Don't let your last loss beat you again.
ANONYMOUS
There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.
ERIC SLOANE
postscript, American Yesterday
God is always in the process of restoring. Your yesterday isn't your today.
TYRONE GREEN
"There's a lot of love at Hearts Delight", Fauquier Times, February 16, 2017
Tomorrows come unnoticed. Todays slip by unheeded. More and more you become a creature of Yesterdays.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday"
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
PEGGY WALL
"King News", The Stokes News, February 21, 2017
Once I was called Tomorrow, and was virgin pure; then I became your bride and was named Today; now I am Yesterday, and carry upon me the eternal stain of your embrace.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday", Four Minute Essays
And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
JASON MRAZ
"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday", Yes!
Yesterday comes too late.
T. WEAVER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESA
attributed, Summer of Yesterday
Oh the yesterdays of life!
How with joys their hours were rife!
Joys that flew too quick away,
On the wings of yesterday.
LAURA ANN WHITMORE
"Yesterday", Aurora and Other Poems
Yesterday is gone and it will never be again. Today is living and breathing. Today is bright and new.
JONATHAN TEMPLE
Just a Closer Walk
Pile up enough tomorrows and you'll end up with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
ANONYMOUS
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
ANONYMOUS
bumper sticker
All our yesterdays are here, the things we use and throw away, lost and found in spidery cocoons.
JONATHAN JONES
"Alice Anderson at the Wellcome Collection Review - a weird, wired world", The Guardian, July 17, 2015
Forgiving yourself is important because if you can't forgive yourself, you can't truly love yourself. It's simply letting go of what you're holding against yourself so that you can move on with God freely, and have a future that is much greater than your yesterday.
JAMES FORTUNE
"James Fortune Debuts New Single: I Forgive Me", The Christian Beat, February 17, 2017