Quotes About Forgiving Self

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Allowing one's self to be forgiven is just as hard as forgiving. Harder in some ways. Because to be forgiven, one first has to admit to being at fault.

Laura Lippman

#5. Forgiving is an inward act that establishes outer boundaries; it is an undefeatable triumph of self-compassion that proclaims you are no longer a victim.

Bryant McGill

#6. In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.

Sharon Weil

#7. We can enhance our life by forgiving our self and others.

Kishore Bansal

#8. Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Stephen Richards

#10. 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

#11. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

Stephen Richards

#12. Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

Ted Cadsby

#13. 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

#14. Offended self-love never forgives.

Giovanni Ruffini

#15. 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

#16. To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Desmond Tutu

#17. Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.

Stefanie Schneider

#19. Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

Wayne Dyer

#20. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Vernon Howard

#21. In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#22. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#23. Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

Liane Holliday Willey

#24. You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

David D. Burns

#25. To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

George Sand

#26. Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

Vaclav Havel

#27. Awakening is the experience of forgiving the illusion of manifesting, for Identity Is Spirit. Christ comes not into form, but calls you out of the world to recognize your Self as eternal Spirit.

David Hoffmeister

#28. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Melody Beattie

#29. Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination ... for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

Pam Houston

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

Stephen Richards

#31. But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

Sue Augustine

#32. I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo

Maya Angelou

#33. Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

#34. Do you think that, by nature, human beings are forgiving?" "I think that, by nature, human beings are self-protective," said Hanratty. "If it is in their interest to be forgiving, then they are. If not, then they are vengeful. I am fairly certain that being forgiving is not an innate virtue.

Betsy Carter

#35. Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

Robert Muller