Forgiving someone doesn t mean
Forgiving someone doesn’t mean pretending nothing happened. Rather, it means releasing the burden of anger and obsession so you can move on with your life.
– Charles F. Glassman
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- Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless. – G. K. Chesterton
- Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night’s sleep. – Carl Honore
- Freedom means choosing your burden. – Hephzibah Menuhin
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- No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what the world means, what anything means, until he has a child and loves it. – Lafcadio Hearn
- The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. – Allen Ginsberg
- There are some people who come in your life pretending that they love you only because they need you. – Uzair Lallmamod
- Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. – Anonymous
- Releasing the pressure, it’s good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime. – Jeb Dickerson