“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are — chaff and grain together — certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….”
— Dinah Craik
“Open your body and your mind to the subtler levels of experience, letting go of your attempt to control, to be right, not worrying about appearances, not trying to be safe.”
— Stephen Levine
“Trust in life, healing and love to persist and prevail. These are universal forces that grow stronger with your faith, trust and optimism.”
— William DeFoore
“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. Forgiving is not a gift to someone else – Forgiving is your gift to yourself – a great gift – the gift of happiness.’
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.”
— Publilius Syrus
“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
“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.”
— Lama Surya Das
“Forgiveness … is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.”
— Joan Borysenko
“The Price of Inner Peace is Forgiveness.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie