Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

We must forget the past.

Let go of yesterday.

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

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

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

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

The new era which is dawning in our country, beneath the great southern stars, will lift us out of the silent grief of our past and into a future in which there will be opportunity and space for joy and beauty-for real and lasting peace.

I’m not looking back in anger at anything.

We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward cross the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

Forget the things that are behind. Forget the unhappy past. Forget the stories of the old feuds, the old triumphs, the old humiliations.

Let's forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.

Everything that happened last year stays in the past.

If we can forgive, it will help us to grow and not remain stagnant in the same place. Then we can move on without animosity and hurt feelings.

I try to forget the past.

Life is too short to hold on to the past and grudges.

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

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.