Stieg Larsson Quotes

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

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.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

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

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?

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

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

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

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

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.