Jacqueline Winspear Quotes

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

Stand up and walk out of your history

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

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.

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

When I think back to some of the most fun nights of my life, it was just me out dancing without a care in the world. It's a release, an outlet.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

There is growth. Get out of the past.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

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