Quotes About Release

A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

There is no condition for forgiveness.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

Never repeat old grievances.

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

Let bygones be bygones.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a choice.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.