Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

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

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain’t easy, it’s the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.

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

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.

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

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

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.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

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.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

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

We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

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

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

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

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.