Forgiveness is a promise, not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sins against them.
Forgiveness is a major part of life that almost everyone has trouble doing. Learning to forgive someone that has wronged us is a very long and difficult process that must be done. Without forgiveness we can not let go of the bitterness and resentment we have towards someone, and without letting go of these things, they start to eat back at us spiritually, emotionally, and eventually physically.
Forgiveness doesn't excuse their behavior. Forgiveness prevents their behavior from destroying your heart.
What about what is fair? What about your pain? What about what you did to mess things up? And what about the things you didn't do to stop yourself from being hurt? What about the past?
Appreciate those who love you. Help those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Forget those who leave you.
When we choose to hold hate in our heart we not only limit ourselves by not allowing ourselves to see the full picture of the past to be able to learn from it, but we also limit our future as we won't be able to see clearly enough each day to be the success that we are truly destined to be.
Life is too short to be anything but happy. Love deeply, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything with no regrets and forget the past with exception of what you have learned and remembered everything happens for a reason.
Those who are strong don't make it their mission to hurt others, or to seek out to find who may hurt them. Those who are strong realize that there are things in life that you simply can't control, including the fact that there will be people in your life that will hurt you, and that there will also always be people in your life that will disappoint you.
"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got." - Robert Brault
When you are willing to forgive you recognize just how free you are when you let go of bitterness and resentment. Though the scars of the pain from your experience will probably always be visible somewhere, the only way that your painful experiences of the past can prevent you from becoming who you want to become is if you let them.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -Lewis B. Smedes
When we choose to hold on to resentment against others, and hold on to anger for the situations that they put us in, we may not realize it, but we are only hurting ourselves.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. Lawrence G. Lovasik
Those who are strong don't make it their mission to hurt others, or to seek out to find who may hurt them. Those who are strong realize that there are things in life that you simply can't control, including the fact that there will be people in your life that will hurt you, and that there will also always be people in your life that will disappoint you.
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
It seems as though the more we know, and the more we find ourselves in tune with life, the crazier that the world and the people in it actually seem. Even through this, we have to be willing to love. It takes courage and faith to continue to believe in people when they have shown you every reason in the world not to.
Sometimes we get angry with people, when we should be angry with ourselves, because we gave them the power to change our mood and feelings.
Those who are angry and remain angry do nothing but diminish their lives with every piece of bitterness that they hold on to. This is because the angry bitterness that they are holding on to overtime starts to poison their bodies, from their mental body to their physical body.
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest
One of the biggest hindrances to a person having great relationships with the people around them is if they are willing to forgive and forget people and their actions.
