Stephen Sondheim Quotes

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

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything - in due course!

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

There is always a time to move on.

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.

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

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'

You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.

I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.