“If you learn something from having been taken advantage by someone, it becomes tuition. If you don’t, it’s a penalty. If you learned something, look at it as an education.”

“A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.”

“Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility”

“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.”

“Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.”

“There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”

“The decision to forgive touches you to your very core, to who you are as a human being.”

“When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.”

“When our minds move in harmony with love—through forgiveness or prayer or the simplest tender thought—then mountains move and the universe shifts.”

“We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.”

“We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know we could do better.”