Libba Bray Quotes

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

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

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Accept your failure, move on, and don't torture yourself.

You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

Everybody kind of has to learn the same lessons. You've got to learn how to get over your first love. You've got to learn how to forgive people that emotionally abuse you. You've got to learn how to let go in a lot of ways.

What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

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