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You are simply naturally inclined to make mistakes just as everyone else is, whether male or female, black or white, young or old. These mistakes are your school of learning, therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.

Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, __oday I am going to be rich,_ does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.

Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It__ amazing what __leeping on it_ can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

The world is full of victims; don__ add to the growing culture of ____e a story to tell_, well not unless it__ a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.