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"My journey to healing started with self-forgiveness and then it became compassion."

"I used to feel that if I forgive Jacob it meant I’d forgotten James but now that Jacob has done so well forgiving him feels really natural."

"Through forgiveness I’ve learnt that love doesn’t die."

"Forgiveness has freed me because it recognises we are all human and we all make mistakes."

"I had to forgive myself or else I couldn’t get rid of my militaristic mindset."

"At first it was very difficult to forgive Nick but then I realised it was not about forgiving the man but about forgiving his stupidity."

"I had been totally focused on our differences but after three months of talking to Khalil I discovered common ground."

"It is through forgiveness that I have repossessed what was stolen from me and put it back where it rightfully belongs."

"Regardless of whether or not he deserved my forgiveness, I deserved peace."

"If I think about them too much I start to dream of revenge so then I have to stop myself because I know revenge will destroy me. I cannot allow myself to bleed and die inside."

"Deciding to forgive was a process, it’s not something that can happen overnight."

"At first I hated the very notion of forgiveness. To tell someone who is in pain to forgive is brutal. Forgiveness can’t be prescriptive."