Elizabeth George Quotes

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

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.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

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

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

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

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

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

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

I can't really dwell on the past.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

I'm not really one for regrets.

The past is over.