Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

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

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.

Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

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.

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

FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

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

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

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

Forgive, but don't forget

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.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

I'll get mad, but then I'll let it go. It's not worth stewing over for the rest of your life. You've got to move on and let it go.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

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

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.