Forgiveness

"Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor."

C R Strahan

"You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first (or last) kiss."

Jostein Gaarder

"Not forgiving is like drinking cat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."

Anne Lamott

William P. Young

"Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat...... Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established......... Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation....
Forgiveness does not excuse anything.........You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely."

William P. Young

Robert Jordan

"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."

Robert Jordan

Khaled Hosseini

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."

Khaled Hosseini

Plato

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light"

Plato

Jolene Mottern

"Time does not heal all wounds, parts of us remain broken, and it's loving the broken pieces for what they are that allows us to feel whole."

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

"Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason..."

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch