Gary Chapman Quotes

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

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

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

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 have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. And never judge anything of the past from the new perspective that is arriving, because the new is new, incomparably new and the old was right in its own context, and the new is right in its own context.

The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it’s making peace with yourself.

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

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.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

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

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

I don't really regret anything in my life.