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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

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Many words of wisdom have been shared and shared again until the original source is no longer identifiable. While some famous quotes are often misattributed to well-known figures, incorrectly ascribed to ancient sources, or credited to authors who were merely passing on the phrases from others, these ideas still inspire and encourage us.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us.

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Noah Levine
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FindCenter Quotes ImageForgiveness is not just a selfish pursuit of personal satisfaction or righteousness. It actually alleviates the amount of suffering in the world.

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Noah Levine
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLetting go of anger and hate requires us to give up the hope for a different past, along with the hope of a fantasized future. What we gain is a life more in the present, where we are not mired in prolonged anger and resentment that doesn’t serve us.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImageEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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C. S. Lewis
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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of my greatest lessons at this point in my life is that there is no there. There's only here.

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Mark Nepo
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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Pema Chödrön
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FindCenter Quotes ImageForgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.

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Gary Chapman
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FindCenter Quotes ImageOnly awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness and thereby create a more satisfying experience.

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Robert A. Johnson
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImagePeople’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Harriet Lerner
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