Quotes about Self-forgiveness

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Reconciliation can also be with your own self. If you don't reconcile with yourself, happiness with another person is impossible.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.

We don't have to punish ourselves by feeling guilty to prove to God or anyone else how much we care.7 We need to forgive ourselves. Take the Fourth and Fifth Steps (see the chapter on working a Twelve Step program); talk to a clergy person; talk to God; make amends; and then be done with it.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

If a man has nobody to punish him when he feels he deserves it, he starts punishing himself. It is this inward-turned hostility which causes the depression [...]

Self-compassion is how we recover.

YOUR CURRENT SITUATION may feel like a gigantic mistake to you—something you should have been able to prevent. I urge you not to indulge in obsessing about what you could have done differently, for that is an exercise in unreality: The past cannot be different from what has actually occurred. I want to help you make a new beginning instead, starting right where you are.