Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.
The incoherence that results from holding on to resentments and unforgiving attitudes keeps you from being aligned with your true self. It can block you from your next level of quality life experience. Metaphorically, it's the curtain standing between the room you're living in now and a new room, much larger and full of beautiful objects. The act of forgiveness removes the curtain. Clearing up your old accounts can free up so much energy that you jump right into a whole new house. Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ~ Alden Nowlan
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ~ Israel Zangwill
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ~ Jean Paul Richter
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. ~ Koran
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ~ Ausonius
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. ~ Madame Dorothée Deluzy
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
To err is human; to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ~ Ed Howe
If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past.
I've learned that when you have an argument with your spouse, the first one who says, 'I'm sorry I hurt your feelings; please forgive me,' is the winner.
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