Winston Duke Quotes

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

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

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

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?

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I am trying to move forward with my life.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.