Yo, today's QODS, you can either let your past beat you or you can let it teach you.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

.com. We got Zig Zigler on the show wrapping up the week and today he's going to talk about

the power and the gift of forgiveness. What is it today? Right now that you can let go.

Zig Zigler, he's coming up.

Well, it all starts really with a huge word called forgiveness. Now forgiveness is something

that is very difficult to do for an awful lot of people. But life is unfair, you might

say. I couldn't forgive that person while let me tell you what that rascal did to me.

Let me tell you what that woman did to me. It hurt me years and years ago. Well, let me

tell you something folks, when we deal only in fairness, I might point out that neuropsychologist

Philip McGraw says this, if we make fairness the basis of forgiveness, then we're going

to be at war the rest of our lives with people in our lives. Let's deal with this one

just for a few minutes. I fully understand that forgiveness is a very difficult thing

to do. But in my judgment, it is the most prominent problem that we have in our society.

But that person doesn't deserve to be forgiven. Don't play God. That's the business that

he is in. Do yourself a favor, give yourself the gift of forgiveness. I've seen it happen

so many times, but one of the most vivid experiences I think I've ever had, I was speaking

in Atlanta, Georgia, three or four years ago. It was a Friday night huge crowd. And they

were videotape and you could only see the front part of the audience. And I couldn't

see what was going on in the back. And I got to talk about forgiveness. And I made the

observation that regardless of what had been done to you are said about you, everything

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