Chesa Boudin Quotes

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

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.

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

I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

If we can forgive, it will help us to grow and not remain stagnant in the same place. Then we can move on without animosity and hurt feelings.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

Sometimes you can't forgive, but you try to forget.

There is hope in forgiveness

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Forgiveness is a feeling.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

There is no peace without forgiveness.