Quotes:
- Whether you realize it or not, the quality of your life cannot appreciate beyond your level of self acceptance -Isaac Oladipupo
- It is hard to fly when something is holding you down – Gbenga Adegbembo
- Memories warm you up from the inside, but they also tear you apart – Haruki Murakami
- It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on -Steve Maraboli
- People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on -Bill Cosby
- The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself -Confucius
- Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself -William Shakespeare
- You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it -Maya Angelou
- We all make mistakes, don’t we? But if you can’t forgive yourself, you’ll always be an exile in your own life -Curtis Sittenfeld
Poem:
The sleepless nights spent thinking
About things that add nothing
The several times I looked at the mirror
And regretted what I saw
The woes lamented for a moment too long
The choices made to please the “them”
Every time wasted, money squandered
Opportunities lost
Every friendship sought and forsaken
All the things that sounded good
And those that tasted better
Taking time on things not sound
Making me less than a mime
Thinking that I knew the best
Receiving what I did not want
And giving what I’d rather keep
I forgive you, me
I forgive you for them all
BY MARIAM ADEYANJU