But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself.

There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed everyone into his own city.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

A tale in everything.