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Quotes About Forgiveness

Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.
~ Matt Haig
I've let people down. I haven't always been easy. I've done things I regret. I was a bad wife. Not always a good mother, either. People have given up a little on me, and I don't entirely blame them.
~ Matt Haig
Room Imagine forgiving yourself completely. The goals you didn't reach. The mistakes you made. Instead of locking those flaws inside to define and repeat yourself, imagine letting your past float through your present and away like air through a window, freshening a room. Imagine that.
~ Matt Haig
there comes a time when you have to put the dead to rest, Philip. When you have to trust the living instead.
~ Matt Haig
4. There is absolutely nothing in the past that you can change. That's basic physics.
~ Matt Haig
Keep allowing yourself the human privilege of mistakes.
~ Matt Haig
I regret feeling so much guilt.
~ Matt Haig
Being aware that everything that could possibly happen happened to her somewhere, in some life, kind of absolved her a little from decisions.
~ Matt Haig
We can look at the world through more than one lens. If we look at people through the lens of emotion, at the feelings that drive opinions, rather than the opinions themselves, it's easy to see the things we share. The hopes, the fears, the loves, the insecurities, the longings, the doubts, the dreams. Other people can be wrong, and we can be wrong, and that is another thing we have in common. The capacity for fucking up. And for forgiving.
~ Matt Haig
She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.
~ Matt Haig
As Ayishat Akanbi put it, 'If you've decided your healing is dependent on other people acknowledging their faults you'll still be waiting in your grave.
~ Matt Haig
She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn´t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppresed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale.
~ Matt Haig
She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale.
~ Matt Haig
rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.
~ Matt Haig
She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she
~ Matt Haig
She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imaged accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale.
~ Matt Haig
The Book of Regrets 'Every regret you have ever had, since the day you were born, is recorded in here
~ Matt Haig
And I stood up, again to help when I was supposed to hurt.
~ Matt Haig
But I still don't get why you let me go into that life if you knew Volts was going to be dead anyway. You could have told me. You could have just told me I wasn't a bad cat owner. Why didn't you?' 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.
~ Matt Haig
She realized it wasn't her fault that her parents had never been able to love her the way parents were meant to: without condition.
~ Matt Haig
She imagined what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made, every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature.
~ Matt Haig
As she switched to freestyle she realised it wasn't her fault that her parents had never been able to love her the way parents were meant to: without condition.
~ Matt Haig
You don't punish anyone other than yourself by keeping hate inside you.
~ Matt Haig
Self-forgiveness makes the world better. You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.
~ Matt Haig