Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

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

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

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

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.

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

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

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.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.

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.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

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.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

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

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

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

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.