Allison Anders Quotes

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.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

You can’t move ahead until you bury 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.

Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

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

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.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

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

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

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.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

You know, those kinds of things in your life...movies you try to work out your issues, then you realize those kinds of traumatic issues just stay with you forever and they just keep reoccurring, and no matter how hard I try to get them out of my head, they just sort of stay there.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

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