Jennifer Grant Quotes

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

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

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

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

The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

At a certain point, when I let go and was done - when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective - that's when I healed. Letting go healed me.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

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

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.