Debbie Macomber Quotes

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

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

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

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

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.

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

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

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.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.