Felix Mendelssohn Quotes

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

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

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

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 think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

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.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

My aim in life is not to judge.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

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

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

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

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

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

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

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes when we understand that as humans we all do the very best we can, and we can't ask for more than that. Forgiveness is making the choice to find no more value in anger, and to see that we are all God's light, all joined, and the separations we feel are only part of the illusions of the ego.

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.