The healing power of forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~ Josh Billings

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
~ Maya Angelou

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
~ Marcus Aurelius


Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it.
~ Ken Hart

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
~ Peter Ustinov

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
~ Jesus Christ
And Love is reflected in love;
~ Mary Baker Eddy