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Quotes About Acceptance

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
~ Margaret Junkin Preston
Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.
~ Bruce Springsteen
When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
~ Amy Poehler
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
~ Leighton Meester
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.
~ Mark Twain
If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Forgive what you can't excuse.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.
~ Lesley Kagen
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
~ Philip Yancey
We are never content with our lot.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
~ Mother Teresa
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
~ Wayne Dyer
Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
~ Zoë Akins
Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.
~ Unknown
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.
~ Sark
if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
~ Doris Lessing
I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.
~ Rebecca West
Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
~ Jeanette Winterson
... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
~ Myrtle Reed