#given

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#faith

My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#forgiveness #philosophy #experience

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ↗

— Hannah More

#anger

Never lose Faith. Always have hope. Love for always. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#this-series #faith

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed? ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#maturity #mercy #forgiveness

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#compensate #console #given #him #imagination

Happiness There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place the finest garment, which you saved for an occasion you could not imagine, and you weep night and day to know that you were not abandoned, that happiness saved its most extreme form for you alone. No, happiness is the uncle you never knew about, who flies a single-engine plane onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes into town, and inquires at every door until he finds you asleep midafternoon as you so often are during the unmerciful hours of your despair. It comes to the monk in his cell. It comes to the woman sweeping the street with a birch broom, to the child whose mother has passed out from drink. It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing a sock, to the pusher, to the basket maker, and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots in the night. It even comes to the boulder in the perpetual shade of pine barrens, to rain falling on the open sea, to the wineglass, weary of holding wine. ↗

— Jane Kenyon

#jane #kenyon #forgiveness

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

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#away #dawn #day #dusk #given