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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#forgiveness

Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour the heart that beats within you, as well as the head that rests on your shoulders. Learn how to believe in people again and not be judging or cynical to various beliefs. We are all of one light on this one Earth, and loving humanity makes all the difference. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#forgiveness #gratitude #honor #oneness #opportunities

To my abusers: I forgive you. ↗

— Pattie Mallette

#justin-bieber #loving #pain #pattie-malette #suffering

... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad ability." "... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#relationships #forgiveness

I did not regret any single thing I have done in my life in the past since the day I was already conscious of what I was and am doing, nor the things I have not done. Regretting is lame. I believe in myself, and so in God's mercy and forgiveness. ↗

— Rea Erika Paraz Ebate

#life #past #regret #regrets #forgiveness

On a Tuesday they were we, and by Friday they were dead and they buried them in the courtyard side by side, oh, my love, and they buried them dies by side" breaking away from Gideon with some reluctance, Sophie, rose to her feet and dusted off her dress. "Please forgive me, my dear Mr. Lightwood-I mean Gideon- but I must go murder the cook. I shall be directly back. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humour #sophie-collins #forgiveness

They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever-- ↗

— George Saunders

#george-saunders #love #tenth-of-december #forgiveness

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back. ↗

— André Aciman

#forgiveness

I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else. ↗

— Brenda Hodnett

#inspirational #forgiveness

Laughter can be a form of forgiveness—a gift, cathartic. ↗

— Briar Kit Esme

#inspirational #forgiveness