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Quotes About Healing

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.
~ Victoria Osteen
Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
~ Henri Nouwen
When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.
~ Dean Ornish
Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.
~ T. B. Joshua
If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.
~ Gary Zukav
Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.
~ Louise Hay
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
~ Alice Munro
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
~ Unknown
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.
~ Catharine Marshall
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.
~ Robert Breault
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
~ Jack Kornfield
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.
~ Rick Warren
Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.
~ Gary Zukav
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself
~ T. D. Jakes
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.
~ Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
~ Caroline Myss
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
~ Cheryl Strayed
It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.
~ Michael Jackson
The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.
~ R. T. Kendall
There is hope in forgiveness
~ John Piper
The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
~ R. T. Kendall