Quotes about Release

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different." It's accepting the past for what it was and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward. — Opra

Today, be proactive about forgiving those who have been the source of pain in your life.

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.

Here is invariably a spiritual fact: Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness.

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.

Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.

But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free.

The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts us free and holds us tight.

Forgiveness offered—especially when so undeserved—cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.