Yesterdays Quotes

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”

“One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.”

“You can’t worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this.”

“Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.”

“People who are detained (held in prison) are locked up by their past, and because you are locked up by your past you are held hostage by your yesterdays. And if you are held hostage by your yesterdays, you cannot see your tomorrows. -- Rev. Earl Smith, author, Death Row Chaplain, creator of IMPACT (Incarcerated Men Putting Away Childish Things)”

“Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe it's so we have the chance to invent, or at least include, some magic in our yesterdays, surely the consolation of getting older, of moving away from youth, is that we can shape our past to our fantasies. So, even if the present isn't going the way we want it, we can stand and remember our earlier selves as exciting and funny and daring”

“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.”

“No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.”

“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays”