Quotes About Forgiveness

Realizing that your mother couldn't love you is one of the most painful discoveries you'll ever make. You deserved to be cherished, but your mother was a disturbed, unhappy woman who took out her frustrations on you. And it wasn't your fault.

I came to realise that there are two facets to forgiveness: giving up the need for revenge, and absolving the guilty party of responsibility.

People can forgive toxic parents, but they should do it at the conclusion—not at the beginning—of their emotional housecleaning. People need to get angry about what happened to them. They need to grieve over the fact that they never had the parental love they yearned for. They need to stop diminishing or discounting the damage that was done to them. Too often, "forgive and forget" means "pretend it didn't happen.

emotional and mental peace comes as a result of releasing yourself from your toxic parents' control, without necessarily having to forgive them. And that release can come only after you've worked through your intense feelings of outrage and grief and after you've put the responsibility on their shoulders, where it belongs.

You are not responsible for what was done to you as a defenseless child.

the pedagogy of pain. I am pathetically grateful to the doctors for righting the wrong they had done.

We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

I've now reached the point where I don't hate anyone. Hatred makes things worse. Hatred stops one coming to terms with all the horror and grief. And one must come to terms with it. Somehow.

It's important to give people the benefit of the doubt even if they don't deserve it.

Montana, he said, dragging her against him. Montana, I'm so sorry. I was wrong. What I said, how I treated you. He drew back so he could see her face. I love you. I have from the first. You're the best part of me. You are the light to my dark and without you, I'm blind. I'll give you anything, if only you'll stay with me.

You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

I'm sorry," he whispered, pressing his cheek against her hair. "I'm such a jackass." She rubbed her hands up and down his back. He was warm and alive and next to her. Nothing else really mattered. "Jackass seems strong," she murmured. "How about a first-class screwup?" "If you're going to do a job, then do it the best you can." He chuckled low in his throat. "Gee, thanks." "You're welcome.

wants a second chance.

Besides her Zane muttered under his breath. She caught a handful of words. Something about being old, broken bones and a reference to hanging Chase from the lightning rod in the middle of a storm.

Forgiveness is a gift given by those with a full heart.

Simon. She might not know many things, but

Men get over things. Women remember forever.

Everyone made mistakes. The measure of a person was what happened afterward. Later

Your mother can't hurt me. I have Fletcher and my girls and you. My life is perfect. Any cruelty she speaks comes from a place of pain and while sad, isn't my responsibility.

She was very aware of the fact that her first act on the road to healing had been to devastate someone she loved. The shit road of being a drunk never went away.

Don't have regrets. They're a painful thing, and they never go away.

Everyone, even within a family, is different. We all have different needs, different issues we struggle with. Part of being a family is learning to face those differences, forgive, and accept so that you can move on to love.

How about this—let's not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we'll never get it right without him.

I'm not wicked." "Jensen, you've spent three years lying low, trying to make everything right. But you can't redeem yourself. You can't make yourself and your life whole again. God can.