Aldous Huxley Quotes

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

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.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

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

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

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.

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

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

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.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

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?

Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.