Quotes About Healing

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

Never repeat old grievances.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

I rest in the light of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.