Philip Zimbardo Quotes

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.

It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

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

You're the hero of your own story. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever. When I let go of those ideas it was easier to see my childhood from different points of view.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

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.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

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.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

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.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

I'm not really one for regrets.

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

Everything that happened last year stays in the past.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.