Toni Garrn Quotes

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

I bet you that we all learn from our mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, too.

Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.

I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

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 must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

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.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

I honestly think the biggest trials end up teaching you how to let go.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

Any experience you have, there are good parts of it and bad parts, and you have to learn from the bad parts and the mistakes that you've made.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

I try to learn from my losses, see how they can help me in the future.

We can't change the past. We can only get ready for the future.