Paulo Coelho Quotes

The important thing is that ever since I realized all the wrongs that I had done, I have been trying to correct them for the past 27 years.

I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I'm not going to be the same as I was when I've made so many bad mistakes.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

We all have things in life we'd do over again.

Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

Jesus never consults your past to determine your present.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.

In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.