Quotations similar to RELEASING - ACCEPTANCE, FREEDOM
Also see RELEASING AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A person who says, “I can forgive, but I cannot forget”, is really saying, “I refuse to forgive”. - Jim Hartness
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. - Rambler
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Havelock Ellis
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
Any thought that makes you feel uncomfortable - be it fear, guilt, anger, worry, frustration - is backed by a negative belief. Let it go! - Che Garman
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past. - Neal A Maxwell
Don't let the past steal your present. - Cherralea Morgen
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers
Don't ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about yesterday and tomorrow. - Unknown
Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. - Brenda MacIntyre
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. - Mary C Crowley
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it. - Samuel Butler
Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. - Zig Ziglar
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. - Larry Eisenberg
Forget the past. - Nelson Mandela
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. - Harriet Nelson
Forgive or relive. - Unknown
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. - Les Brown
Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness. - Unknown
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. - William A Ward
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. - Lawana Blackwell
Forgiveness is like sunshine after a rainy day. - Unknown
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is permanent attitude. - Martin Luther King, Jr
Forgiveness is the final form of love. - Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. - Isaac Friedmann
Forgiveness liberates the soul. That's why it's such a powerful weapon. - Nelson Mandela
Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past. - Lily Tomlin
Forgiveness means letting go of a hurtful situation and moving on with your own happiness. - Amanda Ford
Forgiveness means letting go of the past. - Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. - Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace. - G Weatherly
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. - Unknown
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. - Ann Landers
He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. - Martin Luther King, Jr
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. - Henry Ward Beecher
I don’t forgive people because I’m weak; I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes. - Marilyn Monroe
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? - Dolores Huerta
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton
Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. - Buddha
Let go of the place that holds, let go of the place that controls, let go of the place that fears. Just let the ground support me. - Stephanie Kaza
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. - Leo Tolstoy
Life is made up of giving and getting and forgiving and forgetting. - Unknown
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy. - Katherine Mansfield
Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present. - Regina Brett
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. - Eric Butterworth
My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. - Forrest Gump
Never let yesterday use up today. - Richard H Nelson
Never limit your view of life by any past experience. - Ernest Holmes
No matter who or what has wronged you, it is meaningless if you chose not to remember it. - Unknown
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. - Michael Cibenko
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar. -Thich Nhat Hanh
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney Harris
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build onto it: it is only good for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. - Sir William Osler
Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go. - Sylvia Robinson
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go. - Sylvia Robinson
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. - Eckhart Tolle
Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go. - Havelock Ellis
The best definition of forgiveness I ever heard is giving up the hope that the past could be any different. - Oprah Winfrey
The hardest part about moving forward is not looking back. - Sally Kempton
The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge. - Unknown
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire
The longer you take to move on, the less time you’ll have to spend being happy. - Kevin Ngo
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward. - Steve Maraboli
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. - Gandhi
There are no victims, only volunteers. - Robert Anthony
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. - Bryant H McGill
There's an important difference between giving up and letting go. - Jessica Hatchigan
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. - Sydney Harris
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. - Oprah Winfrey
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. - Confucius
To err is human, to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin Adams
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. - P T Barnum
To forgive is human, to forget divine. - James Grand
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. - Robert Muller
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. - Lewis B Smedes
To understand is to forgive, even oneself. - Alexander Chase
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. - George Lucas
Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey
We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves. - Joshua Liebman
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. - May Sarton
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. - Bernard Meltzer
Write the wrongs that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on marble. - Arab proverb
You cannot run the race full speed with a garbage bag full of trash. Let it go and run the race full speed.- Coleman Fisher
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. - Dr Wayne Dyer
