Jared Polis Quotes

We must forget the past.

Sometimes you can't forgive, but you try to forget.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

Time wounds all heels.

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

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.

We must ask people to forget about the past and to live for the future.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

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

Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my life. When you don't have shame around something, it can't hurt you.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

Sometimes you have to think about letting people move on.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.