USA

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

"Forgiveness won’t change the past, but it can change the present, which is where the future starts."

"In that instant, I realized how much negative energy it takes to hold hatred inside of you."

"I choose to forgive her for my own health and happiness and to free myself from mental angst and bondage."

"We decided we needed to reach out and get to know our neighbours, making contributions to our community and learning together."

"In the past I’d always perceived him as this horrible man who didn’t understand or care for me, but now I just saw a father who loved his son."

"Softly the answer came; ‘forgiveness is mine to give, his reaction is irrelevant’."

"I knew the only way to get past what had happened so that it would no longer dictate my life was to forgive him."

"The missing step was embracing my anger in a healthy way."

"So please honour Jesse’s memory by consciously changing an angry thought into a loving one, to make this a better world."

"To borrow from Harold Kushner, forgiveness is first and foremost a way of seeing. It cannot change the facts about the world we live in but it can change the way we see those facts."

"The abuse remains embedded within my people. It is very difficult to step outside the historical trauma that perpetuates."