Linda Sue Park Quotes

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.