Louise Hay Quotes

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

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

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

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

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

The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. In many families, there are hurt feelings and a reluctance to forgive. It doesn’t really matter what the issue was. It cannot and should not be left to injure. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. George Herbert, an early 17th-century poet, wrote these lines: ‘He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need of forgiveness.’

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

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.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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.

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.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender