“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
Lewis B. Smedes
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”
Gerald Jampolsky
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”
E.H. Chapin
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boese
“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.”
Alden Nowlan
“We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.”
Louise Hay
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
Cherie Carter-Scott
