This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, ‘aw shit, he’s up!
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a walk through my neighborhood, and since I can’t resist anything purple… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
― William Arthur Ward 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It was sent to me by a good friend who happens to spend his days outside as a postal carrier. These lovelies were found along his delivery route. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from his smart phone.

Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It’s our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.
― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18 

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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
― Kahlil Gibran 

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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
― Kahlil Gibran 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a walk through my neighborhood, and since I can’t resist anything purple… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack 

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I have a fair collection of crystals and took a close up of my amethyst geode. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.
― Cherie Carter-Scott 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a walk through my neighborhood, and since I can’t resist anything purple… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Stux from Pixabay.