“All I wanted was to crush him with my words. As if my words had the power to remove my pain and make us even. I was wrong. My words bounced back and cut my wound deeper. Pain is not healed with anger. The wound only closes when forgiveness shows its face.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“Forgive them. All of your Thems. The more Thems you can forgive, the lighter you'll feel.”— Karen Salmansohn, twitter.com
“You have to say 'I am forgiven' again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The idea of Original Sin—of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available—is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.”— Nathaniel Branden, amazon.com
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Set yourself free, sweet soul. You can smile now. You are free to breathe without caution. The past is nothing but sand on the soles of your shoes, mud on your old car tires, and dusty Polaroid pictures on your refrigerator. Set yourself free and stop setting yourself on fire for every wrong thing t…”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”— Mahatma Gandhi, amazon.com
“Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what’s in a person’s heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what’s in a person’s heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what’s in a person’s heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what’s in a person’s heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late.”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com
“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com
“This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com
“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“None of us can take back what we’ve done in the past, the most meaningful apology is how you live the rest of your life.”— Kathryn Schulz, Penny Beernsten, amazon.com