Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.

I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.