“I, right now, am in no place to forgive anyone without causing harm to myself.”— Alexis Smithers, wordsdance.com
“You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, o…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“We can't really affect the circumstances on what does happen to us, but we can affect how we respond to it. And I thought that it was important for us to be able to forgive and to move on. Because if we devolve with it, you can imagine the anger and hurt that you continue to have.”— Vivian Stringer, amazon.com
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”— Gautama Buddha, amazon.com
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”— Nelson Mandela, amazon.com
“Forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule your life or define your relationship with the one who did you wrong.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to make amends with who hurt you. It doesn’t mean befriending them, sympathizing with them or validating what they have done to you. It just means accepting that they’ve left a mark on you. And that for better or for worse, that mark is now your burden to bear. It m…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Forgiveness means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth about anger is that it’s nothing more than the refusal to heal, because you’re scared to. Because you’re afraid of who you’ll be once your wounds close up and you have to go on living in your new, unfamiliar skin.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choic…”— Shannon Alder, amazon.com
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else — you are the one who gets burned.”— Commonly Attributed To Buddha, fakebuddhaquotes.com
“People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”— C Joybell C, cjoybellc.com
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter But my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about Forgiveness Even if you don't love me anymore”— Don Henley, youtube.com