T. D. Jakes Quotes

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

It’s about getting to a point in your life where you’re ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself.

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

Your past should not be a life sentence.

Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

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.

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

You are not your past.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

Stand up and walk out of your history

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

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

Break through the bonds of your past.