QUOTES from the Sandbox ~ Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Hi Everyone!  Today I have chosen a theme of quotes on/of 'forgiveness.' Yes,
I do remember the years where I had a problem with this...As some of you
know I started my studies in Astrology back in the late 60's...I have a strong
Mars planet in the sign of Scorpio - in the past I had difficulty with this 'thing'
called forgiveness... True like a Scorpion, if you didn't worship at my altar, you
were out of my 'circle.'  I just placed you outside, never to return again :) 
Heaven forbid if you made errors and offended me:)
 
However, that is Scorpio, not yet grown and evolved.  I am older now and I
can truthfully say, gone is my altar, gone is the circle, and I still wonder why
I even had a problem understanding love conquers everything - forgiveness
is a thing of the past.  I can work at forgiving myself, but I can look at a
relationship situation and in the majority of daily incidences, ' Just Let It Go.' 
The miracle thing I found, is it is so easy AND you feel so good when you
realize the negative hold it no longer has on you.  Just don't waste a moment
of your precious time on earth with the negativity when happiness and joy is
just around the corner.

Recently I am aware of some around me that are challenged in this area and
in seemingly every day issues of no value.  Yup, I am older now, and I had to
learn the hard way  -  on some of these battlefields, it is not worth the fight.
Let it go and you will be amazed how great you feel.  As we have all read, 
Love does win out in the end and if that does not say it than perhaps
this may:  Life is too short for  battles of no value!                                 ~Jane
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"I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship.  It takes
a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive."
                                                                                                    ~Yolanda Hadid

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must
pass if he would ever reach heaven;  for everyone has need to be forgiven."
                                                                                                   ~George Herbert

"The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
                                                                                                    ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is
something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on."
                                                                                                            ~Tyler Perry

"We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not;  it take a very
strong person to forgive."                                                               ~T.D. Jakes

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has
crushed it."                                                                                     ~Mark Twain

"Because forgiveness is like this:  a room can be dark because you have closed
the windows, you closed the curtains.  But the sun is shining outside, and the
air is fresh outside.  In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open
the window and draw the curtain apart."                                    ~Desmond Tuto

"Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being.
  Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself."                         ~Robin S. Sharma

"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. 
  Forgive everybody."                                                                ~Maya Angelou

"It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people.
  But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you."                     ~Tyler Perry

"To err is human;  to forgive, divine."                                      ~Alexander Pope
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