The importance of practicing forgiveness.
15 inspiring quotes.
We have all been hurt by somebody’s sentiments or actions. Perhaps someone’s harsh words constantly oscillate in your mind. Someone’s actions may even confuse you and leave you exemplifying self-destructing patterns. Due to this, you start to experience a decrease in your mental health.
When someone hurts us (especially someone who we considered admirable), we have an innate instinct to question why they were so cruel. This can leave you with feelings of hostility, rage and sorrow. This is why practising forgiveness is paramount. When you forgive someone, you have come to terms with someone’s actions and have emancipated yourself from any resentment. Moreover, forgiveness allows you to exemplify empathy towards the individual who hurt you.
However, it’s important to note that the manifestation of forgiveness is a subjective experience. The way it’s defined is different for different people. For some, forgiveness is more of a personal aspiration. It allows an individual to feel a sense of peace with the situation, and to move on gracefully. Amidst this process, they have decided they no longer want a personal relationship with the person who hurt them. They cut contact forever because they found their actions to be inexcusable. For others, forgiveness grants them closure about the situation, and that allows them to give someone a second chance. In essence, it’s different strokes for different folk, and the choice is ultimately yours. However, we personally endorse the former, and not the latter.
Read and internalize the fifteen quotes listed below. Try to understand how the wisdom below can help you understand the importance of practicing forgiveness.
“It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.”
- Tyler Perry
“We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.”
- T. D. Jakes
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
- Richard E. Grant
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”
- Marianne Williamson
“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.”
- Robert Fripp
“Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.”
- Joyce Meyer
“It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
- Maya Angelou
“We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.”
- Frederick William Robertson
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.”
- Sydney J. Harris
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
- Lewis B. Smedes
“The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.”
- Iyanla Vanzant
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
- Danielle LaPorte
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
- Josh Billings
“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”
- Suzanne Somers