self-forgiveness journey Quotes

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent