J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?

I have learned that grief is a vital part of my heart and accept it as a gift that exists alongside joy.

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

Sometimes you have to think about letting people move on.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

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

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

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

Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.

Love heals scars love left

One can forgive but one should never forget.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.