Brooke Shields Quotes

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

I truly don't believe in regret.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

I do try not to dwell on the past too much, because I have a tendency to do that, and as I've gotten older, I've gotten very good at distancing myself from shoulda, woulda, coulda.

I'm grateful for all the experiences, even the negative ones.

Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.

I never really look back. My journey has been unorthodox in many ways. All I do is count my blessings and try to be as present as I can, and I'm thankful for every step of this journey.

I'm really grateful for all of the things I've had to learn along the way, you know? I don't know if I would want to say anything to my younger self. That way, you know, it really means something. If you have to go through it all, it really means something.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

If I've learned anything from TJ, it's that life is a fine balance of holding on, letting go, and never looking back unless it's to admire how far you've come.

I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.

I stopped hating people. I also tried to see the positives in negative situations that I found myself in.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

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

I don't regret anything I've gone through.