T. D. Jakes Quotes

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

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

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

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.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

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.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.