#forgiven

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgiveness #hate #human #humanism #humanity

Those who learn not how to hurt those who hurt, but learn to forgive those who hurt. For they must have grown, hurt themselves. ↗

— Breana Nesseth.

#forgiveness

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apart #because #closed #curtains #draw

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#crushed #fragrance #heel #sheds #violet

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#consent #forgiven #generously #only #share

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#act #becomes #endless #forgiveness #habit

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. ↗

— Janine Turner

#brush #desire #forgiveness #i #make

You can’t imagine how much I regret what happened. For some reason, because of the type of relationship we had, I thought it was an acceptable training exercise; albeit a little extreme. But I’m not going to ask your forgiveness, I don’t want it. I mean to always remember my mistake, so I will never make it again.” (Micah to Kaitlyn) ↗

— Terra Harmony

#kaitlyn #micah #water #forgiveness

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #letting-go #life #motivational #moving-forward