From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.
Iyanla VanzantTell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.
Iyanla VanzantMany people want payback and to see others suffer. Forgiveness is the key to freedom. You can choose to be enslaved and burdened or you can choose to be free. It's a choice. Forgiveness is a state of being. So once you do it, it alters who you are and the way you can be in the world.
Iyanla Vanzant