Joel Osteen Quotes

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.

I tried never to be defined by my past.

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

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts

What happened in my past happened. What's the term - don't cry over spilled milk? That's the thing people don't understand. I'm all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

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.

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.

I have been in love with somebody in my past who lied to me, who cheated on me, and I tried to make it work. But I'm not that girl anymore, and that's been something I've been so proud of.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

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

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.