Kris Carr Quotes

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

I have a lot of self-hatred and a lot of self-anger and a lot of things that I need to let go of.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

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.

Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.