Faith Baldwin Quotes

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

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 is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

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

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.

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.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

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

When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain’t easy, it’s the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.