D. J. MacHale Quotes

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

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

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

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.

Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.

We all have this [emotional] stuff we carry in an invisible suitcase. You can't keep it all, because if you keep it all, you can't move forward. But you can't let it all go, because if you let it all go, you're not yourself. The great balancing act of life is, What do I keep in here?

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

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

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

Without anyone's help, Darth Maul will only commit himself to his mistakes of the past. Every time we find this character, he is living in the past and in some cases he is living with the dead. This character is desperate and he needs Obi-Wan's help to move on.

I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I don't really regret anything in my life.