Marilyn French Quotes

You can't live in the past and say, 'if only.' You have to pick up and move along and make the world better.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and the power of prayer-change is a fuller expression of life. When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a change, rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has closed on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened on new and more interesting things.

Each day life sends you chances to learn, grow and step into your best. Don't miss them.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.

It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.

The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.