Forgiveness Quotes

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy the...

Sometimes Edith came into the room and sat on the bed beside him and they talked. They talked of tri...

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

When you forgive, you love.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our f...

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what ha...

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and d...

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because the...

Cultivo una rosa blanca,En julio como en enero,Para el amigo sinceroQue me da su mano franca.Y para ...

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with usele...

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in ea...

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yo...

People call me an optimist but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago I was cured of a badly infe...

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

He said, 'I forgive you, Pa."And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to s...

One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. ...

I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope yo...

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathe...

Come. There is a way to be good again...

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it "content."

Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human bein...

Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or ...

It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and th...

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her th...

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

Forgiveness. The frail beauty of the world takes root in me as I make my way back through the woods,...

We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid,...

I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an ang...

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so qui...

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an...

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive ...

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat...

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has a...

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if ...

There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink ...

Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.

Hate would destroy him who hated.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had bee...

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented m...

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,...

... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad a...

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and h...

To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of...

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

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always make you less than you ar...

A man employs the full power of the state in his grief and ends up plunging his government into a fr...

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her frien...

... forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a ...

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would han...

UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,...

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, ...

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which i...

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...

Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Whether we're forgiving our parents or someone else or ourselves, the laws of mind remain the same. ...

Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness.  In aikido and other martial arts, we sideste...

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and t...

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the on...

We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essentia...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You m...

When you encounter another person…it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, Wha...