Quotes About Forgiving And Letting Go

#1. You deserve to live your best life now, so set yourself free by forgiving and letting go of that hurt you've been holding on to.

Jamie Larbi

#2. Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Jodi Picoult

#3. The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

Stephen Richards

#4. The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

Claudia Rankine

#5. Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Louise Hay

#7. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.

Edward Fahey

#8. Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.

Stephen Richards

#9. Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you're not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

Steve Maraboli

#10. The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

Caroline Myss

#11. I've learned ... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you ... More

Andy Rooney

#12. By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.

Jim Cymbala

#13. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

Joyce Rachelle

#14. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.

Frank Sonnenberg

#15. I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary ...

Marianne Williamson

#16. When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

Stephen Richards

#17. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

Stephen Richards

#18. We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#19. The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

Confucius

#20. I think forgiveness is a release of emotions, a release to say "No I let go". I think it is critical for our mental health being and our physical health being and I think it is critical for our universal being as well to forgive each other.

John Assaraf

#21. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

C. JoyBell C.

#22. Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you - rotting you out.

Mildred D. Taylor

#23. Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism

Charmaine Smith Ladd

#24. Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Mary McLeod Bethune

#25. Forgiving someone doesn't mean pretending nothing happened. Rather, it means releasing the burden of anger and obsession so you can move on with your life.

Charles F. Glassman

#26. Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

Claudia Black

#27. God searches for us, no matter what dark place we're in or what door we're behind. He hears our impossible, audacious prayers for ourselves and others. And He delights in forgiving us and then answering those prayers by letting us return home to Him.

Bob Goff

#28. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Stephen Richards

#29. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Tim Fargo

#30. Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge.
Amen.

Marianne Williamson

#31. ...if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21).

Benny Hinn