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revenge, forgiveness and letting it go.

Posted by trish on Oct 6, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
– Marcus Aurelius

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
– Marianne Williamson

The best revenge is massive success.
- Frank Sinatra

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
– Bruce Lee

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.. forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More

How does one know if she has forgiven?  You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him.  You tend to have nothing left to say about it at all.
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes

And finally…

I let it go.  It’s like swimming against the current.  It exhausts you.  After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
– Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

 

Thank you, wise people, for this guidance.  I feel so, so much better now.  I’ve turned back around am now heading downstream again.