To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes courage.

Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.

... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally grasped: the past would only fester and eat away at us if we tried to hold on to it too tightly.

But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.

Sometimes the only reason why you
won't let go of someone making you
sad is because he was the only one
that once made you happy.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.