Jane Fonda 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.

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.

Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

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

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.

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

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.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

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

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.

To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

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.

Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it's up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.

I think that time heals all.

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

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

You don't have to move on to let go.