{"quotes":[{"text":"When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.","author":"Genevieve Gerard","tags":["forgive-yourself","forgiveness","forgiveness","forgiving-others","forgiving-yourself","about-forgiveness"],"id":44264,"author_id":"Genevieve+Gerard"},{"text":"A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["forgive","forgiveness","forgiveness-chance-love-equality","forgiving","forgiving-others","forgiving-yourself","healing-the-emotional-self","moving-on","self-help","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-self-help"],"id":65772,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't it interesting that they were God's chosen in the bible? ---Saul, Judas \u0026 King David.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adversity","change","choices","for-god","forgiving-others","forgiving-yourself","god-s-plan","good-people-that-did-bad-things","growth","have-faith-in-people","humanity","imperfect-people","judas","king-david","life-lessons","miracles","new-years-resolutions","no-perfection","prodigal-son","redemption","reflection","religious","revelations","saul","spiritual-growth","turning-your-life-around"],"id":87895,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.And?And then you will be able to forgive yourself—and ask others to forgive you.","author":"Alexander McCall Smith","tags":["alexander-mccall-smith","asking-for-forgiveness","forgiveness","forgiveness","forgiving","forgiving-others","forgiving-yourself"],"id":101875,"author_id":"Alexander+McCall+Smith"},{"text":"Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["accomplishments","anger","betrayed","bitterness","blindsighted","blown-off","broken-hearted","compassion","confidence","creativity","dignity","dumped","ego","erasing-the-past","false-confidence","false-worth","forgiveness","forgiving-others","freedom","games","giving","growth","hatred","hidden-agendas","hurt","ignored","inner-joy","inner-peace","live-free","low-self-esteem","move-on","new-beginnings","obvious","peace","pride","proud","proving-worth","real-value","rebel","repentance","restituition","revenge","seeking-approval","self-hatred","self-love","spiritual-growth","start-over","steps-of-repentance","stubborn","the-past","truth","truth-follower","value"],"id":115180,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["emotional","emotions","forgive","forgiveness","forgiving","forgiving-others","free","freedom","letting-go","letting-go-of-the-past","liberation","liberty"],"id":124884,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["authentic","becoming-one-person","consistency","cure","dignity","faith","forgiving-others","forgiving-yourself","future","genuine","growth","happiness","healing","insight","joy","learning","never-give-up","positive-outlook","practice-what-you-preach","preach","self-respect","self-worth","stayingpositiveu-com","thank-you","truth","words","worth","wounds"],"id":149384,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.","author":"Edward M. Hallowell","tags":["forgiveness","forgiving","forgiving-others"],"id":153601,"author_id":"Edward+M.+Hallowell"},{"text":"Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity,Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom.","author":"Drishti Bablani","tags":["drishti-bablani","forgiving-others","maturity","understanding-others","uns","wisdom","wordions","wordions-com"],"id":173735,"author_id":"Drishti+Bablani"},{"text":"We all need that someone in our life who's going to motivate us and not stress us, and then we need to treat him the same way we want to be treaded, and no lies, we say what we mean and mean what we say. And always try to build together not destroy each other, if the outcome isn't what you expected, at least you can say you tried., but also remember that pressure makes diamonds people. Not everything will be easy between you and me and him and her and them. Its all give and take.. Reward and sacrifice. Try to love those who love you, not just the ones who are easiest to love, try to help those who need you, may you will need the help someday. Try to forgive those who hurt you, may you hurted someone once upon a time and try to forget those who leave you, may god knew that they aren't good for you. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves like what I'm trying now, I try to makes you positive, to make a positive change in your life, it will never happen unless me or you or him or her make it happen. They said 'be the change you want to see in the world' I'm like that and I would like everyone to be like me.","author":"Marouane LAASSAFAR","tags":["build-up","building-people-up","building-relationship","diamond-life","encouragement","faith","forgetting-the-past","forgiveness","forgiving-others","give-and-take","helping-others","life","life-changes","loving-others","motivation","motivational-inspirational","no-lies","perfect-life","positive-changes","positive-choices","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts","reward","sacrifice","stressed-out"],"id":242227,"author_id":"Marouane+LAASSAFAR"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}