Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.

Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.

When you continue in anger, you throw away the keys to the door of your heart; others can’t come in and you can’t get out.

When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there’s probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It’s not...

Love is a sacrificial item

Hate destroys a bridge but forgiveness rebuilds it.

I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have...

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different...

Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another.

Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest...

Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.

Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit.

Trauma can have a masking effect.

The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

So I let her go, too. And I’m sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it.

Love is a spark of light.

To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but...

I just thought I was empty and now I’m being filled…and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another’s control… to be...

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ’s forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror...

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone’s dining room window.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-“”The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl.” He sounds bitter and sad.”If the world will not forgive me,” I say softly, “I...

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God’s own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Healing Follows Forgiveness

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations...

Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.

Forgiveness is one of the keys to moving forward because if you don’t forgive, you are stuck in the past.

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the heart and cools the sting.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

n order to capture someone’s attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

I said in a previous chapter that chastity was the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. But I am not sure I was right. I believe there is one even more unpopular. It is laid...

Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.