45 quotes
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past”
— Jack Kornfield
“To err is human to forgive divine”
— Alexander Pope
“Without forgiveness there is no future and without healing there is no forgiveness so healing comes first”
— Desmond Tutu
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world”
— Marianne Williamson
“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
— Thomas Secker
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“One must learn to forgive God for being God and compassion teaches us how to begin”
— Etty Hillesum
“Forgiveness and compassion are not just ethereal spiritual things they are the essence of what makes us human”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom”
— Hannah Arendt
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
— Confucius
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Compassion is the key to the gate of forgiveness and forgiveness opens the door to love”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
— Beyonce Knowles
“Forget injuries never forget kindnesses”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
— Nelson Mandela
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”
— David Storey
“Do not be ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different and freeing yourself to heal now”
— Oprah Winfrey
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.”
— Ann Landers
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
— Peter Ustinov
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
“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.”
— Lewis Smedes
“Forgiveness is no longer wishing that your past were different and choosing to heal your present”
— Caroline Myss
“There is no future without forgiveness and no healing without it either”
“Without forgiveness there is no future.”
“Whatever affliction may visit you is for what your own hands have earned; and for many He grants forgiveness.”
— Unknown
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. It is also the key to peace.”
“The heart of a mother in a family is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past and embracing the healing present”
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
— Bryant H. McGill
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Any fool can criticize complain and condemn and most fools do but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving”
— Dale Carnegie
“In the end forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of your heart and that heals everything”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong and the path to peace.”
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