Paulo Coelho Quotes

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

Sometimes things are better off forgotten.

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

Whether it was good or bad, that was the day, and you have to let it go.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

The past is the past and besides it's passed

I won't cling to the past.

I can't dwell on the past. It's over, there's nothing I can do about it.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.

If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

It's nice to be able to forget.

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

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

I don't talk about the past.