Jojo Moyes Quotes

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

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 don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

I woke up one day, and for some reason all the hate and anger was gone.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

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.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

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

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.