Tayari Jones Quotes

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

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.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

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

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.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

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

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.

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

I tried never to be defined by my past.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

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

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.