#forgive

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#forgiveness #freedom #generosity #relationships #spirituality

Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom. ↗

— Julie Lessman

#freedom #forgiveness

I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love #slavery #forgiveness

Ultimately, we can really forgive people only because Christ rose from the dead; his Resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure every wrong and every hurt. ↗

— Jacques Philippe

#spiritual #forgiveness

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge. ↗

— Madonna

#revenge #forgiveness

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#moving-on #forgiveness

Life’s too short, we should always forgive the other; it’s horrible having to die, regretting not to have forgiven. ↗

— Luca Piras

#forgiveness

As soon as the words leave her mouth, I'm completely consumed by a sense of peace. For the first time since the second she was taken away from me, I finally know what forgiveness feels like. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#losing-hope #forgiveness

...and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. ↗

— John Green

#forgiveness

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision. ↗

— Randall Worley

#forgiveness