Alesha Dixon Quotes

Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

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

I very rarely go back to do shows again. I'm done once I've learned the lessons I need to learn.

When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

Like everyone else, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. The only way I know how to handle them is to learn from them and move forward.

I feel like I've put my demons behind me.

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

Unfortunately, my departure from Madrid was not pleasant, but those things are in the past, and I have learned a lot and matured.

You learn from your mistakes at the end of the day. We don't got to keep drilling on the past, things like that. You live and you learn.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.