Davinia Taylor Quotes

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff.

You can't be a victim and heal.

You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

I tried never to be defined by my past.

I've always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it's all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

moving on is a gift you give yourself.

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

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

I knew you'd decide to be all right again.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

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?