Top 1200 Forgive Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.

I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.

Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

Daughter, I want you to form the most intense, loving relationship with yourself. Only then will you realize your capacity for kindness and emotional expansiveness. Daughter, after you have formed this relationship with yourself, I want you to love others with the openness and humility that you always embodied as a child. Daughter, I want you to forgive easily, laugh loudly and never allow yourself to become the invisible, silent woman that your mother was. Daughter, this is how we soften our hearts and become better human beings.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.

Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love- the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.

The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.