If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.