Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

I don't know whether you ever get over things that cause you pain.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

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

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

I don't have time for self-pity. I don't see the point in dwelling on the past.

You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.