Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

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

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

I'll get mad, but then I'll let it go. It's not worth stewing over for the rest of your life. You've got to move on and let it go.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

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.

You don't have to move on to let go.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

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

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

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.

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

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

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

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.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

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.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.