Tina Knowles Quotes

Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it's up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.

When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.