Leo Buscaglia Quotes

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

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.

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

Stress is a form of suffering.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

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.

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

I can't dwell.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

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.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

I think that time heals all.