Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

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

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.