Louise Hay Quotes

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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.

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

I forgive. First, because I've been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I'm going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don't forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours.

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.

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.

When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

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.

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

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.