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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The only way to escape the past is to accept it.
Unknown
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Oprah Winfrey
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Forgiveness is not an easy thing to do, but it is the most powerful thing you can do.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
Maya Angelou
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
I am not a perfect person. I make mistakes. But when I say sorry, I mean it.
Unknown
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Suzanne Somers
Forgiveness is not something we do for others. It's something we do for ourselves.
Unknown
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.
Joyce Meyer
Forgiveness is not an exoneration of the perpetrator, who is accountable for his or her actions. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
T.D. Jakes
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Al Franken
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future.
Steve Maraboli
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown
Forgiving yourself is as important as forgiving others. Guilt is toxic, re-living the mistake over and over. Love yourself. Forgive yourself.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserved. But don't do it again.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for the times you were not gentle with yourself. For the times you said 'yes' when you wanted to say 'no'. For the times you didn't speak up. For the times you didn't take care of yourself.
Unknown
Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.
Sarah Kay
Forgive yourself for the things you didn't know before you learned them.
Unknown
If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Roy T. Bennett
The only way to escape the pain of the past is to forgive and keep moving forward.
Unknown
You are worthy of your own love and forgiveness.
Unknown
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
Clark Moustakas
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L. Hay
The only way to get what you really want is to be who you really are.
Andrea Owen
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.
Geneen Roth
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
Dalai Lama
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Bear Grylls
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
Nathaniel Branden
Self-acceptance is embracing yourself as you are right now.
Lori Deschene
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Jung
Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.
Brittany Burgunder
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right and obey God.
Joyce Meyer
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
Forgiveness is not something we do for other people. We do it for ourselves to get well and move on.
Desmond Tutu
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