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Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

I always forgive, but I never forget.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.