Forgiveness is.... giving up the hope that you can change the past.

Everything you blame, you're stuck with. Bless it. Wish it well. Wish it its own freedom, and it will be very powerful in the way that it will not come back to you. If you don't forgive it, if you don't bless it, if you don't wish it well, the energy will just be magnetically drawn back to you because it's looking for resolution. All negative energy that we've inherited, it's there because it's looking for resolution. — Adyashanti

You will forgive because you love yourself so much that you don't want to keep hurting yourself for whatever happened. Whatever happened is done and cannot be changed. And we have to accept that and keep going with our life. — Don Miguel Ruiz

True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different." It's accepting the past for what it was and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward. — Opra

Turn your heart toward what is good by cultivating forgiveness and compassion and mindful presence.

Today, be proactive about forgiving those who have been the source of pain in your life.

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.