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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.
I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]
Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.
We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.
My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.
Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.
When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.
People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.
You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.
Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.