Jim Beaver Quotes

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

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.

If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.

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

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

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