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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. – Robert Muller

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Thanks to their hope for forgiveness, humans can rise above the dark clouds that threaten their horizon and seize the opportunity to see light in their world. – M. Fethullah Gülen

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

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. – Louis B. Smedes

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. – Peter Ustinov

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. – Hannah Arendt

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Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. – George Foreman

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. – Bruce Lee

I have learned that sometimes “sorry” is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change. – Claire London

True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. – David Ridge

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. – Maya Angelou

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. – Harriet Nelson

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. – Hannah More

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. – Alice Duer Miller

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. – Mark Twain

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. – William Arthur Ward

It takes courage and commitment to act in a more forgiving fashion. It is not at all a sign of weakness but a mark of strength. – Carl Thorensen

It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an ever stronger person to forgive.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered. – Louis Dudek

Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest lesson we are here to learn to master, but it is possible with time and patience. – Jeanette Coron

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Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of the world. Through your forgiveness does the truth about your self return to your memory. – Course in Miracles

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness. – Dar Williams

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. – Mason Cooley

You know you have forgiven someone when he or she has harmless passage through your mind. – Rev. Karyl Huntley

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave. – Ivern Ball

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We are not all perfect, forgive others as you would want to be forgiven. – Catherine Pulsifer

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. – Robert Braul

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. – Holmgren

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. – Jean Paul

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. – Mark Twain

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Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble. – Chinese proverb

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. – Thomas Szasz

Forgiving each other for every fault, flaw, and mistake, whether big or small, is one of the best ways to keep respect between couples and to make the marriage a happy one. – Vivian Sandau

 The only way children can learn the habit of forgiveness is by seeing us, their parents, forgive others and forgive ourselves. – Naomi Drew

Forgiveness is a powerful thing. It doesn’t change what has happened; it changes what is to come. – Janeen Latini

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

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. – Chris Northrup

Apologizing does not always mean that you are wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are. – Desmond Tutu

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. – Paul Tillich

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I have to forgive myself and learn from it. – Michael Unks

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. – Emma Goldman

Without forgiveness life is governed by. an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. – Roberto Assagioli

Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it. – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships—things like forgiveness and compassion. – Andrea Thompson

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

Forgiveness takes willingness, even a determination, a decision if you will. – Lori Hill

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. – Princess Diana

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. – Steve Maraboli

When you truly realize what God has done for you, His love, grace and forgiveness begin to transform every area of your life. – Jennifer Carter

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you out of love takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. – Dag Hammarskjd

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Forgive. It doesn’t erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment. – Dodinsky

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat – Jimmy Carter

I think forgiveness is an aspect of our humanity. I think a lot of as are brought up to believe that if we don’t somehow forgive, whatever it is that’s ailing, troubling, angering, enraging or shaming us, or getting us in any way worked up, is going to live longer without forgiveness, whether it’s ourselves or others we’re forgiving. – Robert Coles

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred and the waste of spirits. – Robert Muller

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. – Bernard Baruch

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. – Corrie ten Boom

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. – Epictetus

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it’s not because they forget; it’s because they forgive. – Demi Moore

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. – Jessamyn West

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. It is not something you do FOR someone else. – Larry James

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

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

To err is human, to forgive, divine. – Alexander Pope

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world. – Immaculee Ilibagiza

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Love yourself just as you want other people to love you . . Forgive yourself for past mistakes and allow yourself to experience new opportunities. – Ryan Cooper

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. – Gerald G. Jampolsky

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path. – Martin Luther King, Jr

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity. – Mackenzie Phillips

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others. – Dolores Huerta

 The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. – Nathan Croall

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Forgiving means letting go of the past. It means that we let others act for themselves without judging them. – Christian Olsen

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

Forgiveness is one of the most important first steps to ending conflicts in our families, our communities and between nations. – Robert Alan Silverstein

A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past. – Asa Don Brown

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again. – Jack Kornfield

Forgiveness does not stand on its own. It is not “unilateral disarmament.” Rather it balances self-criticism with commitment to nonviolent social change, which becomes a way of life that does not offer easy answers to complex problems. – Karen Hessel

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld