#les

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#back #forgiveness #gives #headache #holding

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window. ↗

— Jim Norton

#forgiveness #leaderless #molotov #noremorse #resistance

The first key to happiness, is to forgive. ↗

— Andrew Trinh

#life-lessons #motivation #forgiveness

Once I could see Mom for who she was, and not the mother she had failed to be, I'd be able to forgive her. She was her own person, not just my mother, and it was this person I was forging a relationship with. ↗

— Rachel Sontag

#forgiveness

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

#lust #miracles #murder #power #revenge

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it." [On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] ↗

— Don Henley

#learning #lessons #letting-go #life #forgiveness

You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found. I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#finding-yourself #freedom #hope #living-life-to-the-fullest #running-away

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#been #blessed #career #had #i

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#becomes #days #easy #energy #get

Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant. ↗

— James Lusarde

#erotica #freedom #living #living-life-to-the-fullest #love