Joshua Henry Quotes

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

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.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

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.

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

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

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

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

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

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

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.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.

Forgiveness frees the forgiver.

Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself