FORGIVENESS QUOTES
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen
“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom
“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini
“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
― Will Smith
“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy
“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
― Confucius
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
― Steve Maraboli
“When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.”
― Jon Krakauer
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
― Thomas Szasz
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
― Anne Lamott
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― Barbara Kingsolver
“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
― Rick Warren
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“But we can’t go back. We can only go forward.”
― Libba Bray
“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
― Mark Twain
“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
― Wm. Paul Young
“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
― Wil Zeus
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
― Emma Goldman
“I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it’s not so easy when you try it in real life.”
― Susane Colasanti
“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”
― Wm. Paul Young
“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you’d never forget?”
― Jodi Picoult
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama
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