Forgive yourself Quote by Jane Christmas

“I will never forgive the boys who raped me and I am a thousand percent comfortable with that because forgiving them will not free…

— Roxane Gay

“Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been…

— Geraldine Brooks

“When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you…

— Stephen Richards

I didn't rape myself. I'm not the one who made myself have mental trauma. Not all of it is my own doing.

— Naquitta Faith

“You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it’s actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.”

— Jon Krakauer

“When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.”

— Lawrence Block

“If you want to master your past at some point in time you’ll have to learn forgiveness.”

— Chris Vonada

We're so busy thinking about our own bruises, our own scars, we forget how to forgive. But if we just take the time to…

— Anonymous

“When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Who knew there were still people like that in this world, though? Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody…

— Ryu Murakami

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

— Gary Zukav

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

— Publilius Syrus