Nelson Mandela Quotes

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

I never hold a grudge.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.

Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

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.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

I will always forgive but I will never forget.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

Life is too short for resentments, and I always forgive.