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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through. -- Valerie Bertinelli
I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened. -- Derek Magyar
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. -- William Glasser
Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future. -- Bryant H. McGill
On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more. -- Richard Henry Horne
If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future. -- Lewis B. Smedes
I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time. -- Ravi Zacharias
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer. -- Bryant H. McGill
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word. -- Lewis B. Smedes
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff? -- Shane Koyczan
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past. -- Pat Morita
The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past. -- Marie Kondo
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. -- Ethel Barrymore
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget. -- Paul Gillmor
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. -- Sophia Loren
On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful. -- Nelson A. Miles
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. -- Jung Chang
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. -- Theodore Dalrymple
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived. -- Junot Diaz
Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this. -- Sean Brady
Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. -- Bryant McGill
No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever. -- Fred Durst
We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves. -- Robert Anthony
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope. -- Bryant McGill
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain. -- Bill Crawford
Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month. -- Leslye Headland

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