Wayne Dyer Quotes

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

Regrets are so far from reality.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

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

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

The past is the past: what can you do about it?

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

In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.

I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.