Cheryl Strayed Quotes

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to 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.

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.