Paulo Coelho Quotes

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.

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

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

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

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

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

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

God forgets the past... Imitate Him.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

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

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

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.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

I'll get mad, but then I'll let it go. It's not worth stewing over for the rest of your life. You've got to move on and let it go.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.

Whatever you did in the past is quickly forgotten.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.