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Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
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Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
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Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
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Would you rather be right or happy?
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
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The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
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When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
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There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
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Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
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The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
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My happiness depends on me.
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Seek not outside yourself.
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In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
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The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
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Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
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The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
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I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
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Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
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I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
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Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind
Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful
than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
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The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
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The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Our opportunity is to love ourselves exactly as we are -
with all our joys and sufferings.
To be grateful for everything.
To forgive ourselves for our doubts of our own worthiness -
for we have no need to be anything other than what we are.
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Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Sheri Rosenthal
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
I Release Myself From All Guilt.
I forgive myself for judging me guilty.
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I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
I forgive myself and others for that
which is done (and better left undone)
and also that which is not done (and better if done).
I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt.
I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose love. Choose to release all resentments.
Forgive everyone. Choose to release all regrets.
Forgive yourself for all decisions that you have ever made
that didn't work out as you hoped.
Forgive yourself for any financial decisions
that didn't meet your expectations.
Release your regrets if you choose
the "wrong" spouse or the "wrong" career.
Today, choose love.
Choose to love yourself.
Choose to love your life.
Choose to love all the friends, family, co-workers,
acquaintances, and others who share your life.
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Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Forgiving others is a gift to yourself,
given not because the other deserves pardon,
but because you deserve the serenity and joy
that comes from releasing resentment and anger,
and from embracing universal forgiveness.
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"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
Today, I say yes to forgiving.
I commit to being for-giving love
and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.
- Sheri Rosenthal
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
I forgive for my own sake,
that I may transmute my resentments into Unconditional Love.
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When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Forgiveness is the salve that heals
the wounds of unkind words and acts.
Forgive everyone for every hurt you have ever received -
for your own sake, that you may live in peace.
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
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Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
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