Desmond Tutu Quotes

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

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

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.

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.

Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

There is hope in forgiveness

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.

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?

A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

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.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

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

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.