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No Matter What Happens Between Us, I Will Always Choose Forgiveness

"I choose forgiveness because I choose to heal." - Marisa Donnelly
Marisa Donnelly
October 11, 2016
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
— Robert Brault, No Title
Tagged: Apologies, forgiveness, Anger, Hatred, Apologizing
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain— and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Tagged: forgiveness, Self-Control, Empathy, Understanding
“Love doesn’t conquer all.
Love ends.
And it begins again.”
— Dawson Leery, Dawson's Creek
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups, Getting Back Together, Divorce, forgiveness
“Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past. ”
— Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice
Tagged: forgiveness, Change, The Past, The future, Reality
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
— Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography
Tagged: strength, Life, forgiveness
“Set yourself free, sweet soul. You can smile now. You are free to breathe without caution. The past is nothing but sand on the soles of your shoes, mud on your old car tires, and dusty Polaroid pictures on your refrigerator.

Set yourself free and stop setting yourself on fire for every wrong thing that you ever did. It’s time to wash it all away. Welcome the rain to clean all the wounds off of your heart. Welcome the sunshine, and welcome forgiveness.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, You Have To Forgive Yourself If You Want To Be Free
Tagged: Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Love, forgiveness
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: forgiveness, Peace Of Mind, Anger
“Forgive them. All of your Thems. The more Thems you can forgive, the lighter  you'll feel. ”
— Karen Salmansohn, Twitter
Tagged: forgiveness
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: forgiveness, Moving On, Moving Forward
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
Tagged: forgiveness
“Forgiveness means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you still have to live in its city of ruins. And no amount of anger is going to reconstruct that city. You have to do it yourself.”
— Heidi Priebe, Read This If There’s Someone You Can’t Forgive
Tagged: forgiveness
“Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to make amends with who hurt you. It doesn’t mean befriending them, sympathizing with them or validating what they have done to you. It just means accepting that they’ve left a mark on you. And that for better or for worse, that mark is now your burden to bear. It means you’re done waiting for the person who broke you to come put you back together. It’s the decision to heal your own wounds, regardless of which marks they’re going to leave on your skin. It’s the decision to move forward with scars.”
— Heidi Priebe, Read This If There’s Someone You Can’t Forgive
Tagged: forgiveness
“Forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule your life or define your relationship with the one who did you wrong.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: forgiveness, Moving Forward, Moving On
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
Tagged: Hatred, Love, forgiveness
“We can't really affect the circumstances on what does happen to us, but we can affect how we respond to it. And I thought that it was important for us to be able to forgive and to move on. Because if we devolve with it, you can imagine the anger and hurt that you continue to have.”
— Vivian Stringer, Standing Tall: A Memoir Of Tragedy And Triumph
Tagged: Finding Strength, Strong, Pushing Forward, Moving Forward, forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving, Letting Go Of Anger
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, forgiveness, Healing
“Because I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me.”
— Chip, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, Love After Death, Pain, Injustice Of Death, Suffering, Life And Death, humanity, Forgetting, forgiveness
“Compassion is the key to this, all of this. If we could all stop and breathe and find more room for compassion, for forgiveness, for proud and honest love for everyone around us, my goodness what a tidal wave of change would spill across the planet.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Internet Poetry, Comfort, forgiveness, Pride, Honesty
“You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you remember what they did to you. It doesn’t matter what others did to you, you are going to forgive them because you don’t want to feel sick all the time. Forgiveness is for your own mental healing. You will forgive because you feel compassion for yourself. Forgiveness is an act of self-love.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: forgiveness
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Commitment, forgiveness
“Forgiveness has always felt like the most beautiful second chance. Like the answer to a prayer you didn’t know you were asking. Like freedom in a way you never imagined. Like a burden finally lifted from your tired shoulders.”
— Marisa Donnelly, When It Comes Down To It, I Will Still Choose Forgiveness Every Time
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Second Chance, Let Go
“I learned to love forgiveness.

I learned that granting it gave me healing, that asking for it gave me humility and strength. I learned that we are all sinners, all a little broken, all looking for something to help us back on our feet again, all looking for someone to say that we’re doing alright, just as we are.”
— Marisa Donnelly, When It Comes Down To It, I Will Still Choose Forgiveness Every Time
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Second Chance, Let Go
“I think I’ve forgiven people that haven’t deserved it. But I’m okay with that. I’m okay with that because my heart doesn’t hurt any longer. Because there’s no bitterness hidden deep in my chest.

Because pain is only temporary, and I have chosen happiness.

Because forgiveness taught me that I am stronger than any pain inflicted on me, and I always will be.

So I choose forgiveness.”
— Marisa Donnelly, When It Comes Down To It, I Will Still Choose Forgiveness Every Time
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Second Chance, Let Go
“I choose forgiveness because I deserve to heal.”
— Marisa Donnelly, When It Comes Down To It, I Will Still Choose Forgiveness Every Time
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Second Chance, Let Go
“For some reason we think that having a guarded heart is strong. We believe that letting people in, that letting go is weak. But the truth is, learning to trust, to open, to forgive, and to release your pain—those are the strongest things you can do.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Even If Your Heart Is Broken, Forgive
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Letting Go
“The truth about forgiveness is that it sets your heart free.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Even If Your Heart Is Broken, Forgive
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Letting Go
“Forgiveness builds you. It builds you because it helps you erase negativity and instead embrace the good that’s all around you. Forgiveness blesses you. Forgiveness rescues you.

Forgiveness strengthens you because it makes your heart a powerful weapon. In forgiving, you help the one that has hurt you seek their own healing. And in turn you are healed.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Even If Your Heart Is Broken, Forgive
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Letting Go
“Let it all go with everything you have inside your chest, every piece of anxiety you’re holding on to and every ounce of anger you feel towards yourself along and the world. Just breathe it all out and let it disappear into the air. The tears that are forming in your eyes, let them freely run down your face.”
— Becca Martin, You Need To Forgive Yourself (And This Is How You’ll Do It)
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Healing, Letting Go
“Write everything down, pour your heart out in that journal and don’t stop until you feel free. Until you feel you’ve finally released all your thoughts and you can breathe easier.

Then light the pages on fire and watch them burn in front of your eyes.
Forget about them. Let the thoughts go. Forgive yourself and move forward.”
— Becca Martin, You Need To Forgive Yourself (And This Is How You’ll Do It)
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Healing, Letting Go
“It’s time to forgive yourself for the people who walked away. For the ones who didn’t fight, for the ones who made you feel like you were not worthy of being loved the way you loved others. It’s time to forgive yourself for the way in which you trusted, the way in which you let them leave fingerprints along your spine. It’s time to forgive yourself for unhinging your chest, for letting them leave their memories in your ribcage, for letting them take so much of you.”
— Bianca Sparacino, It’s Time To Forgive Yourself For Once Accepting Less Than You Deserved
Tagged: forgiveness, forgive, Healing, Let Go