Mary Manin Morrissey Quotes

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

You can't go into something good until you let go of all the bad stuff because you'll find yourself steady bringing up all the old in a new situation.

Life's easier and nicer when you let go of the past and look to the future.

There is something to not always reminding people of a show they've already seen, but instead embracing the one right in front of him. I am Cody, and I can promise you that the future is going to be even better than the past.

Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.

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.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.