Peter McWilliams Quotes

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

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.

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.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

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

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

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

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.

Forgiveness indeed heals memories

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.