Don Henley Quotes

We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.

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.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

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

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

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.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

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

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

What have I to forgive and whom?

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.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!