Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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.

You don't have to move on to let go.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

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.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

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

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

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

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 makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

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.

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

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

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

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.

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

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

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