Yann Martel Quotes

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.

Moving on is not closure. It's not neat, and it's not about turning the page. It is about moving on, but it doesn't mean that you've left something behind.

The movie has called it closed. I'm not saying I won't ever listen to 'Les Miserables' again. But it closed the door for me. It's gone its own way.

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

For me to give my advice to somebody who's thinking about going back to an ex or keeps on going back to their ex, you'll know when you're done. You'll know when you're finished with that person. You'll know when you're over them and ready to move, but nobody else can tell you that.

Closure. I loathe that word.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

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

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

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.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

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.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

I regret nothing.

You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.

I don't live in the past.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

I never look at things again once they're done.

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