Forgiveness is a sign of letting go and when you forgive someone that hurts you, you take away their power. ~London Mond

Life becomes peaceful with forgiveness and forgiveness comes easy with emotional and spiritual maturity. Life can be redefined with forgiveness.  ~Vikas Runwal

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them. ~Catherynne M. Valente

Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most
essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we.
If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led
to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves;
we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy,
we will live our own life in exile.

“In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding.
As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry,
‘Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself,
‘What’s the use of this,’ and I let it go.’” ~Jack Kornfield

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
The search for happiness is the main reason for unhappiness. Accept life the way it comes.
As a result, you’ll find happiness in every moment of your life. ~SantaBanta

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time.
And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person,
and has managed to let go of the past,
what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.

~ Caroline Myss

Maple Red. Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt