Ralph Marston Quotes

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.