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All forgiveness is self forgiveness.
Sep 10, 2025
Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.
Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.
Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
The weak can never forgive.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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