- Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.
– Anonymous - Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
– Marianne Williamson - Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
― Mark Twain - Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
– George MacDonald - Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
– Hannah Arendt - Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
― Isaac Friedmann - Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
― Henry Ward beeder - Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
– Louis B. Smedes - Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
– Alice Duer Miller - He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
– George Herbert - Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
– Joan Lunden - How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes - I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
– Henry Ward Beecher - If you want to be miserable. Hate somebody.
– John Mason - It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
– William Blake - It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong or when we suffer evil, to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
– Socrates - It’s my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
– Sean O’Casey - It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
― Maya Angelou - Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
― Norman Cousins - Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.
― Lex Luger
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