Ray Allen Quotes

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

We all say things sometimes to hurt people, so it's important to forgive and have peace with others and forgive and be at peace with yourself.

You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.