Forgive Quotes Quotes & Sayings

The universe on your skin is empty
from all the silence on your tongue.
Forgive yourself. Let your body heal
from all the wounds you did not inflict
on yourself. Drop the sword you carry
on your shoulder for self-defense.
Lower the armor you hold high up
for protection. Those who harmed you
are not going to come back. Those who
have left never intended to return. — Akif Kichloo

My problem stemmed from not forgiving myself. — Shannon A. Thompson

To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace. — Debasish Mridha

Lord bless this land, and all who inhabit it. Bless the earth. 'Tis borrowed from you after all. Let the work be fit worship to You. Grant us safety as we work. Grant us favor against any untoward spirits. Jealousy. Greed. Bigotry." Chance paused. "Even such as shadows my own heart. Forgive my tresspasses as I forgive. — Michele McKnight Baker

Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I forgive myself...today I forgive myself — Kristin Cashore

Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it. — Debasish Mridha

To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect. — Human Angels

Forgive me,
joy,
if I blasphemed you
before I learned to love. — Milan Rufus

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed. — Donald L. Hicks

Learn from the past, be thankful for the past, forgive the mistakes of the past, and let it go. — Debasish Mridha

Speak with silence, listen with heart, and forgive with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

My feet, bare, lightly graced your face. My soul ascended to the sky, magnificent, as that of two thousand thrushes. Grounded I am by your white light. My dear Mother Earth, forgive me for intruding." - Susan Marie — Susan Marie

You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive! — Anamika Mishra

If someone chooses not to forgive others, they are actually hurting themselves. The only way to free yourself from that is to forgive others so you can be free from your past. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

For your loss, never regret.
But forgive and forget. — Debasish Mridha

You give away your power when you don't forgive. — Tyler Perry

When you feel angry or frustrated at a brother for using a particular defense -- being controlling or whatever it is -- you are failing to forgive yourself for the very same attempt; you still believe that the defense has a reality. You are seeing it out there but when you start to pull it back to your mind, you start to see the control in yourself. The guilt from transferring it from one seeming person/body to another seeming person/body is enormous. Instead of blaming your brother, the blame gets turned onto your own seeming body, but it is still the same error. We have to see that I am mind; this identity that I took off of my brother but still saw in myself is also just a construct in my mind. Otherwise, what good is the transfer? — David Hoffmeister

Children love with all their hearts ..dream with all their minds.. forgive with all their souls. Lets be children forever !.'-Fida Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them. — Stephen Richards

At times we must forgive others even when they don't deserve it. We forgive them because we deserve it. Free yourself. — DeWayne Owens

Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere. — Debasish Mridha

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts. — Stephen Richards

Forgive to be free, let go to grow like a tree. — Debasish Mridha

Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein. — Stephen Richards

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness. — Stephen Richards

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing! — Stephen Richards

When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate. — Winsome Campbell-Green

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly. — Stephen Richards

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU. — Stephen Richards

This is the time to love. This is the time to forgive. This is the time to ponder. This is the time to wonder. — Debasish Mridha

You can never forgive yourself without forgiving others. Forgive others to find and create peace in your soul. — Debasish Mridha

If you don't like my poetry and quotes and your a Christian forgive me if you're an Atheist ignore me — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone. — Stephen Richards

To be happy, learn to forget and forgive. — Debasish Mridha

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness — Robert Muller

If you ask God for love,
He may give you someone to forgive.
If you ask God for patience,
He may give you someone to bear. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Relationships without a Divine Aim always "break up," for they are based on nothing. Divine Purpose could be described as forgiveness -- the undoing and releasing of the ego. Belief in the ego prevents awareness of True Union and Intimacy. The underlying fear of Intimacy and Union is the ego's fear of loss of itself, the 'personal self' and the 'personal world. — David Hoffmeister

You forgive the person or situation not because what the person did was right, but you forgive to save yourself the suffering, heartache, and feelings of revenge. The pain that you focus on will never give you peace of mind and the more you bind your emotions to the pain, the more of it you will create in your life. So being angry and revengeful does not affect the person you are angry with. Instead, it destroys your life. Thus, you forgive to keep yourself in well being. Carrying hatred and anger is like carrying garbage wherever you go, it will stink your life. — Premlatha Rajkumar

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you. — Gina Greenlee

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either! — Nehali Lalwani

Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity. — Stephen Richards

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them. — Stephen Richards

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow. — Stephen Richards

Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours! — Amanda Mosher

Why should I lessen your load while I suffer in silence? Why? If I forgive everybody, none of you would have anything else to worry about, no shame, no regrets, no nothing. What about me? I would still be suffering. So, hell to the no. I'm not giving anybody my forgiveness. If I'm suffering, you all have to suffer with me. — Hermione Daguin

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn't my trip. — Karl Lagerfeld

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday. — Stephen Richards

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong. — Stephen Richards

Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free. — Debasish Mridha

Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love. — Debasish Mridha

Forgiveness is a very curious thing, in that you must not only know how to forgive; but you must also know how to accept forgiveness. Both of these aspects are equally important. When someone forgives you - believe it. — C. JoyBell C.

Hermione looked at him, not blinking. It was a moment before she replied, "I know that you served your time on Azkaban Station." She looked out the porthole into the inky blackness of space, twirling her fork between her fingers. "Everyone here is hoping for a clean slate when they reach Alpha Centauri, but that will only happen if we all agree to forget and forgive the past. As far as I'm concerned, you've earned your redemption. — Refictionista

When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven. — Debasish Mridha

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves. — Sharon Salzberg

Give me the power to love; give me the power to be kind. Give me the power to forgive; and give me the power to be non-judgmental. — Debasish Mridha

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them. — Amit Kalantri

The more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him. — Debasish Mridha

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all. — Stephen Richards

Forgive my brother," Camira apologized. "We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present. — Brandon Mull

...if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21). — Benny Hinn

Can you forgive her? Can you do that?
There was no response.
Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.
And?
And then you will be able to forgive yourself - and ask others to forgive you. — Alexander McCall Smith

When you forgive people, events and circumstances, you are in the process of change, which leads you towards dominant universal emotion called love. — Hina Hashmi

Forgive yourself, be calm and be kind;
nothing will disturb your inner peace of mind. — Debasish Mridha

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest. — Debasish Mridha

Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well. — Stephen Richards

Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity. — Rebecca Johns

Forgiveness is NOT forgetness. If you forgive, remember to be wise enough NOT to forget. — Widad Akreyi

We want Allah to forgive us, yet we are not willing to forgive others.
Desire the same that you wish for your enemy,
Pray for those who harmed you with the same passion that you pray for yourself.
Be willing to open heaven's door for your enemy.
The greatest compassion lies in forgiveness. — Zarina Bibi

Whenever anyone harbored ill will toward the beast or said he'd got what he deserved, the spell increased and the evil grew stronger and stronger in the gargoyle. It became more and more difficult for people to forgive-and love-not only the beast, but each other as well. This, too, made the evil increase. — S.L. Whyte

You cannot love if you cannot forgive. — Kemi Sogunle

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again. — Stephen Richards

Let us make this world a house of love and peace.
Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice.
Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice.
Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace. — Debasish Mridha

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over. — Stephen Richards

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process. — Stephen Richards

Learn to forgive "HATERS" and people who think less of you. Don't bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love. — Henry Johnson Jr

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge. — Stephen Richards

In an unforgiving world, chaos rules. — Stephen Richards

Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it. — Dada Bhagwan

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW. — Stephen Richards

We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace. — Debasish Mridha

When you forgive and love your enemy, you are always the winner. — Debasish Mridha

Never forget to forgive yourself; always remember to love yourself. — Debasish Mridha

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness. — Stephen Richards

I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like. — C. JoyBell C.

Don't be afraid to stand tall in YOUR truth! Boldly and confidently face everything that has, and is, keeping you bound. Fight for your inner peace! Fight for your happiness! Fight for everything and everybody that's important to you! You are NOT a victim! Don't even play into that. You owe it to yourself to LIVE! Live your life without the regrets, without the resentments, without the unforgiveness, without the blame game, without the self-pity, without any and everything that keeps you from experiencing true joy within! You are too important to waste your life away! Learn to appreciate and value your life, but most importantly, learn to appreciate and value yourself! You count too, no matter what you've done! — Stephanie Lahart

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure. — Stephen Richards

Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better. — Sachin Kumar Puli

Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes. — Debasish Mridha

Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been evaluating my relationships from a standpoint that emphasized growth rather than duty and obligation, I would have understood that abuse irreparably undermines bonds. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way ... Women who would no more tolerate a friendship in which they were emotionally and physically abused stay in romantic relationships where these violations occur regularly. Had they brought to these bonds the same standards they bring to friendship they would not accept victimization. — Bell Hooks

When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine. — Genevieve Gerard

Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again. — Ikechukwu Izuakor

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

Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive. — Stephen Richards

The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all. — Stephen Richards

Forgive means to give a chance to reform, so be a forgiver — Azhar Sabri

When we forgive, we're saying to our heart that we are ready to move on. — Milan Ljubincic

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care. — Kristin Hannah

To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love. — Debasish Mridha

Life is too short. I forgive and forget. I have not time to get mad or hate. — Debasish Mridha