Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Time cancels young pain.

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

The best way to get even is to forget.

You don't have to move on to let go.

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.