What Is Forgiveness?
It is the ability to let go of resentment and anger toward people, and releasing unpleasant memories and emotions about past events.
Forgiveness means letting light and happiness fill your life, instead of hurt feelings, resentment and anger.
This requires that you rise above the ego and petty considerations, and show mercy, compassion, tolerance and lack of vindication.
Enjoy reading the forgiveness quotes below.
Inspirational Forgiveness Quotes and Sayings
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”
“Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds.”
“If we practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.”
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future.”
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
Let Go of Anger and Let in Tranquility
Don't let anger control your life!
If you allow anger to grow and take root, it will turn into lifelong resentment and adversely affect your life and relationships.
“Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much.”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
“Dwelling on past hurts and repeating them in your mind is a bad investment that causes you continued suffering.”
“To understand is to forgive, even oneself.”
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
“When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.”
“I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.”
“Forgiveness isn’t approving what happened. It’s choosing to rise above it.”
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
“To forgive, is like opening a window in a darkened room and letting the light and the warmth of the sun come in.”
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.”
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
Forgiveness Quotes
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Let Go of Anger and Let in Tranquility
Don't let anger control your life!
If you allow anger to grow and take root, it will turn into lifelong resentment and adversely affect your life and relationships.
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