Quotes About Forgiveness
There is almost nothing in the world that can quite give us the feeling that we can get than that of bestowing forgiveness on someone. That when you do so, you feel as if your light as a feather. And your enemy no longer has a choke hold on you. You feel as if you were the one that is liberated and set free. Instead of feeling that we set the enemy free. It is a strange phenomena. But when one has the courage to forgive, they can drastically alter their emotional and spiritual well being.
I wrote this article on quotes about forgiveness to help us all recognize the power and meaning of forgiveness. So that we can internalize what it truly is and starting utilizing it more and more in our daily lives. So we can have a powerful weapon in our too belt that will have to help guide us through this life with more ease. And help us attain more long term and fulfilling happiness.
Enjoy My Friends.
Forgiveness Quotes
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“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” – Bryant H. MgGill
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“The key to freedom lies not in blame, but in forgiveness.” – Paula Horan
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“Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Lewis Boese
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“Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.” – Nelson Mandela
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“Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.” – Epictetus
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“Relationships get stronger when both are willing to understand mistakes and forgive each other.”
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“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson
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“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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“Let us forgive each other, only then will we live in peace.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.”
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“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.” – Confucius
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“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.” – Joyce Cary
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“If you really want to love, we ust learn how to forgive.” – Mother Theresa
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“Compassion is kindness, forgiveness is empathy.”
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“Forgiveness is unlocking to door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner.” – Max Lucado
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“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” – William Arthur Ward
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“Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anytying that made you smile.” – Audrey Hepburn
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“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” – Robert Muller
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“It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself to forgive. Forgive yourself.” – Maya Angelou
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“The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.” – Bryant H. McGill
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“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” – Cherie Cater-Scott
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“Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals.” – Thomas S. Manson
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“Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.” – Byron Katie
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“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Let no man pull you low enough to hate hi.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“You practice forgiveness for two reasons, to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel.” – Wayne Dyer
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“Forgive those who have hurt you.” – Les Brown
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“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.” – Tony Robbins
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“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” – Isaac Friedmann
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“As I walked out of the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” – Nelson Mandela
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“True forgiveness is when you say ‘Thank you for that experience’.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.” – Josh McDowell
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“When you forgive, you don’t change the past, you change the future.”
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“Forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
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“Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished, but because the wounded are merciful.” – Max Lucado
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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” – Lewis B. Smedes
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“Blame keeps wounds open, forgiveness heals.” – Thomas S. Monson
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“True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.” – David Ridge
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“Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.” – Dodinski
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“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”- Indira Gandhi
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“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 in hope for our future.” – Louis B. Smedes
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“When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.” – Nelson Mandela
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“Forgivness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of heart.” – Corrie Ten Boom
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“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli
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“Love yourself as you want other people to love you. Forgive yourself for past mistakes and allow yourself to experience new opportunities.” – Ryan Cooper
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“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.” – Publilius Syrus
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.” – Mahavira
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“When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.” – Princell Diana
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“Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.” – Rick Warren
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“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
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“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.” – Corrie Ten Boom
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“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”- Les Brown
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“Sometimes you forgive people simply because you want them in life.”
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“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” – Buddha
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“There is freedom in forgiveness, and it’s not that hard to do once you get into the habit.” – Dana Perino
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“Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect , we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after somone dies.” – Sandra Cisneros
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“One forgives to the degree that one loves.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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“Forgiving you is my gift to you, moving on is my gift to myself.”
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“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better best.” – Lily Tomlin
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“Forgive someone isn’t approving how they wronged you rather, it’s no longer allowing their wrong to define you.” – Rachel Wolchin
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“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.” – Bily Graham
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“Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.”- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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“Forgiveness is a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.”- Dr. Steve Maraboli
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“We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.” – Fredrick William Robertson
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“When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power.”
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“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them, but love cannot cease to will their removal.”- C.S. Lewis
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“Relationships get stronger when both are willing to understand mistakes and forgive each other.”
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“We all fall short and have need of grace, mercy and forgiveness.” – Kevin R. Duncan
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“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move one.” – Steve Maraboli
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“Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.” – Ben Greenhalgh
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“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feels like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.” – Andy Stanley
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“When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future.” – Bernard Meltzer
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“We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive, but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing process.” – Louise Hay
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“I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.” – Steve Maraboli
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“The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.” – Jane Fonda
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“Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.” – Wayne Dyer
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“Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving chances the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lessons.” – Paulo Coelho
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“Forgiveness does not mean we must forever act as though the incident never happened. Forgiveness demands that we forever act as though the offense did happen and we chose to forgive the person.”
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“I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.” – T.D. Jakes
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“Sweet mercy is mobility’s true badge.” – William Shakespeare
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“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” – Luke 23:34
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“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
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“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something, forgiveness however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” -Criss Jami
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“Forgive yourself for not having the foresight to know what now seems so obvious.” – Judy Belmont
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“Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.” – Joel Osteen
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“I have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.” – Gerald Jampolsky
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“Forgiveness keeps you from being bound by something the other person may never set right.” – Tony Evans
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“I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. it’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.” – Sue Monk Kidd
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“I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.” – Gerald Jampolskhy
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“You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them. But still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale
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“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu
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“Love in the real world means saying you’re sorry 10 times a day.” – Kathie Lee Gifford
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“Hating someone makes them important. Forgiving them makes them obsolete.”
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“Everyone makes mistakes. If you can’t forgive others, don’t expect others to forgive you.”
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“I have learned that the person I have to ask for forgiveness the most is myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself ‘That’s just fine’. You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don’t see those things anymore. Because that’s what love is.” – C. Joybell C.
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“Never does a human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge and ares to forgive an injury.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“It can be hard to forgive and let go, but it’s important to remember that harboring and holding a grudge can hurt you even more. The word forgive really means to give something up for yourself, not for them.” – Jack Canfield
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“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” – Norman Cousins
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“Live, love, forgive & forget: Life’s too short to be living with regret.”
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“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive again.” – Alan Paton
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“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” – Marianne Williamson
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“Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.” – Elbert Hubbard
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“If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.” – Robert Brault
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“Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.”
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“Children begin by loving their parents, as they grow older they judge them, sometimes they forgive them.” – Oscar Wilde
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“God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and yet, that has not been our story line. That has been our history.” – Richard Rohr
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“Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power if can release in an individual.” – Jennifer O’Neill
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“Forgive because none of us are perfect.”
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“There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.” – John Connolly
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“There is nothing more classy or powerful than showing forgiveness and grace to someone who does not deserve it.”
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“The worlds I will forgive you, but I’ll never forget what you’ve done, never explain the real nature of forgiveness.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each others, because of many kindnesses, because of love. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.” – Ellen Goodman
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“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past, a healed memory is not a deleted memory, instead forgiving what we cannot change creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of the past into hope for our future.” – Louis Smedes
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“Peace, I leave with you, my peace I give you. I do not give to us as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27
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“When your forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.” – Jon Krakauer
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“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.” – Adlai Stevenson
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“Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness could be ours.” – James E. Faust
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“Forgiving someone may cost you your pride, but not forgiving them will cost your freedom.”
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“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown
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“A happy marriage is about three things, memories of togetherness, forgiveness of mistakes and a promise to never give up on each other.” – Surabhi Surendra
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“You can forgive someone and yet not want anything to do with them. People need to understand that forgiveness is for the past reconciliation and not for future consideration.”
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“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.” – Elbert Hubbard
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“Forgiving someone is easy, but being able to trust them again is a totally different story.”
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“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head on.”- Alice Miller
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“A winner rebukes and forgives, a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.” – Sydney J. Harris
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“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.” – Emma Goldman
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“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.” – William Blake
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“They caused the first wound, but you are causing the rest. This is what not forgiving does. They go it started, but you keep going. Forgive and let go, or it will eat you alive. You think they made you feel this way, but when you don’t forgive, you are the one inflicting the pain on yourself.” -Bryant McGill
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“Unforgiveness is like having weeds in the garden of our soul. Weeds grow and reproduce until an entire garden is destroyed. If you want a garden of love, joy, and peace in your heart, you must get rid of all the weeds.” – Partney Dascher
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“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness.”- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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“Forgiving yourself is as important as forgiving others. Guilt is toxic, re-living the mistake over and over. Love yourself. Forgive yourself.” – Robert Tew
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“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.” W.M Paul Young
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“Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behavior. Forgiveness prevents their behavior from destroying your heart.”
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“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
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“I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolishness.” – Tony Gaskins
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“Without forgiveness, life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.” – Roberto Assagioli
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“You’ll never know how strong your heart is until you know how to forgive who broke it.”
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“I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health aof my family. For the world be a better place.” – Tyson Fury
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“Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.” – Proverbs 17:9
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. “
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“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” – J.K. Rowling
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“I forgive myself and set myself free.” – Louise Hay
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“When one forgives, two souls are set free.”
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“Forgiveness doesn’t mean you accept what they did. It means what happened doesn’t control you anymore.”
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“I believe in forgiveness, I believe in trying to work with people.”- John Lewis
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“Forgive people and move forward. Forgiveness is the remedy. It doesn’t mean you’re erasing the past, or forgetting what happened. It means you’re letting go of th resentment and pain, and instead choosing to learn from the incident and move one with your life. Remember, the less time you spending hating people who hurt you, the more time you’ll have to love the people who love you.”
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“Forgive yourself for not having the foresight to know that seems so obvious in hindsight.” – Judy Belmont
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“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim, letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.” – C.R. Strahan
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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and realize the prisoner was you.”
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“IT takes a lot of courage to forgive someone but it takes even bigger courage to ask for forgiveness.”
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“Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.” – Clemantine Wamariya
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“Because forgiveness is like this, a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.” – Desmond Tutu
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“Holding onto 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
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“Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.” – Joseph Prince
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“Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of fear. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.” – Tara Westoer
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“To understand is to forgive, even oneself.” – Alexander Chase
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“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
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“Forgiveness is making a conscious decision to live in the present, even if the past still hurts.”
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“The heart of who I am as a person and a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a log of things that were done when I was a child.”- Tyler Perry
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“Forgiveness doesn’t mean you excuse the crime. It just means you’re no longer willing to be the victim.”
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“We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not, it takes a very strong person to forgive.” – T.D. Jakes
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“I don’t think people understand that you can forgive a person and not allow them back into your life. That is possible, very possible.” – Alex Elle
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“To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.”
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“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” – Garrison Keillor
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“Someday, we’ll forget the reason we cried and who caused us pain. We finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time. After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh, forgive, believe, and love all over again.”
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“The blood of Christ covers all of our sins. but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience forgiveness.” – Lewis B. Smedes
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“Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.” – Elin Nordegren
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“Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. Forgiveness is the final act of love.” – Beyonce
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“Forgiveness is the best form of love. It takes a strong person to say sorry and even stronger person to forgive.”
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“Forgiveness is not about letting someone off the hook for their actions, but freeing ourselves of negative energies that bind us to them.”
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“Learning to forgive yourself after loving the wrong person can be the most difficult thing to do but you can’t beat yourself up for someone’s inability to appreciate the stars in your eyes, he warmth of your soul and the love in your heart.” – r.h. Sin
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“Good to forgive, best to forget.” – Robert Browning
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“Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness.”
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“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac
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“Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.” – John F. Kennedy
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis
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“To my younger self, I would say unless you’re literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.”- Jonathan Van Ness
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“Forgiving what we cannot forgive creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for the future.” – Lewis Smedes
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“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times if 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
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the hell that has crushed it.” – Mark Twain
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“Kindness and compassion lead to forgiveness.” – Tina Samples
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“The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.” – Nathan Croall
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“One of the hardest things to do is forgive someone that isn’t sorry.”
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“Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized, or because you acknowledged the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace.” – Najwa Zebian
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“As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.” – Joan Baez
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“Instead of thinking ‘I will not forgive that person because’… Shift it to ‘I choose to hold on to resentment and all the pain because.’… How does holding on to that pain really help your life. What benefit is there for you to keep it alive? Once you make that shift inside, you will always find a reason to forgive, and will never find a reason not to. The key benefit of forgiving is the freedom to love and trust again.” – Doe Zantamata
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“Forgive someone who doesn’t deserve forgiveness.” – Tony Sorenson
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“It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an even stronger person to forgive.”
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“The best way to destroy your enemies is by forgiving.”
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“It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive.” – Patty Duke
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“Forgiveness for on’es self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.” – Yolanda Hadid
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“Holding a grudge doesn’t make you strong. It makes you bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make you weak, it sets you free.” – Davis Willis
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“Love with conditions isn’t real love. Forgiveness with a grudge isn’t true forgiveness. Life without love and forgiveness isn’t really living.” – Dave Willis
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“I never knew how strong I was until I had to forgive someone who wasn’t sorry, and accept an apology I never received.”
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“Can you really forgive if you can’t forget.” – Sarah Jessica Parker
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“Forgive and forget. It may not change the past but it gives the future a chance.”
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“It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.” – Muhammad
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“Dear God, please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt remove my anger, that I might be reborn.” – Marianne Williamson
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“God’s forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.” – Jonathan Sacks
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“You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it’.” p- Maya Angelou
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“Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn’t feel was right.” – Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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“Remember when you forgive, you heal. And when you let go, you grow.”
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“You don’t forgive people because you’re weak. You forgive them because you’re strong enough to know that people make mistakes.”
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“Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.”
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“The best revenge is always to just happily move on and let karma do the rest.”
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“He will teach you to remember that forgiveness is not loss, but your salvation. In complete forgiveness, in which you recognize that there is nothing to forgive, you are absolved completely.” – A Course In Miracles
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“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hanna Arendt
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“I forgive people by forgetting them.”
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” – Josh Billings
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“Forgive others as quickly as you except God to forgive you.”
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“Forgiveness is a process. Forgiveness is not about giving your approval of an offender’s wrong doing. It’s not about viewing what they did as less harmful than it truly was. And it’s not about giving the offender a free pass to keep on doing wrong actions against you. Forgiveness is about recognizing that staying resentful creates an active echo of the pain the offender caused. By saying that the awful offense the offender did is beyond forgiving, you give them the power to keep their offense alive in your heart. Basically you give the offender continued power over you. Forgiveness begins with the mind recognizing that there’s a truthful logic in how the past cannot be changed, but happily the present and future can be. Eventually forgiveness progresses to the heart, with the heart deciding it will no longer allow the offenders pain to take permanent residence. Yes it is a process, but eventually the mind and heart together recognize that the choice to forgive is both logical and spiritually liberating.”
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“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”- C.S. Lewis
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“Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with deserve.” – Eric Metaxes
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“Forgiveness is not a feeling, it’s a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offence up against the offender. Forgiveness is an express of love.” – Gary Chapman
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“To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.” – Mason Cooley
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“Forgiveness isn’t just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift to yourself.” – Robin S. Sharma
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“The mere existence of the word forgiveness in our vocabulary and in our dictionary argues for a transcendent capacity for moral reasoning and intelligent judgement far above the rest of the natural living world.”- Bartson Jahn
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“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.” – Jessamyn West
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“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. IT is one of the great virtues, to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either or both, when needed?” – Gordon B. Hinkley
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“As the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” – Colossians 3:13
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“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice. Be kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you.” – Ephesians 4:31:32
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“Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says ‘Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.” – Marco Rubio
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“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” – Grace Hopper
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“It’s hard to understand why someone might cause us pain and heartbreak. Often someone’s behavior is so hurtful, we feel like there is no place to forgive. We find ourselves feeling like ‘forgiveness’, is something far easier said than done. The thing is, it’s essential to forgive, for our own sake, for our own sanity. We must recognize that resentment merely hurts us, not them. We must let the pain go, so we can set ourselves free.” – Karen Salmansohn
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“Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts make us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.” – Mother Angelica
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“To understand somebody else as a human being I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.” – David Small
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“You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.” – T.D. Jakes
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“Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.” – Jessica Lange
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“We all believe that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.” – C.S. Lewis
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“Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.” – Nickey Gumble
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“Don’t ever underestimate the power of forgiveness. I’ve seen it free people. I’ve seen it lift burdens that had weighed them down and kept them moving on.”- Buffy Andrews
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“Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.” – Phillips Brooks
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“Release resentment and anger regularly after allowing yourself to feel these emotions fully. Do this by saying ‘I now forgive and release (fill in the blank), I let loose and let go and I am free.’ Once you begin, you’ll find more and more things to release. This practice is a powerful way to rejuvenate your body and your life.”
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“God will forgive you. All you need to do is ask, believe, and receive it. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive out debtors.”- Matthew 6:12
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“Before you wrap up your day and go to bed, forget about those people who make you angry. Remember those who make you smile and go to bed with a smile.”
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“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” – Anne Lamott
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“Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.” – T.D. Jakes
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“You wound is probably not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility.”
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“Forgiveness takes willing, even a determination, a decision if you will.” – Lori Hill
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“A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”
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“When you haven’t forgiven those who’ve hurt you, you turn your back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.” – Tyler Perry
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“Forgive, a huge command the Lord has give us. Drops of unforgiveness will cloud our relationship with the Father.” – Donna Schmier
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“A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past.”- Asa Don Brown
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“Remember, Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.”
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“Be the flower that gives it’s fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.”- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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“I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships, things like forgiveness and compassion.”- Andrea Thompson
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“It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.” – Tyler Perry
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“Keep in mind that forgiving is not for others. It is for you. Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering without anger. It frees up your power, heals your body, mind and spirit. Forgiveness opens up a pathway to a new place of peace when you can despite what has happened to you.” – Les Brown
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“A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace.” – Darlene Schacht
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“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which became a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
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“When we don’t forgive we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.” – Joel Osteen
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness out to be like a cancelled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that is never can be shown against one.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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“Forgiving is not forgetting. It’s letting go of the hurt.”
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“I forgive people but that doesn’t mean I accept their behavior or trust them. I forgive them for me, so I can let go and move on with my life.”
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“If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him, lest there be two bad men.” – St. Augustine
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“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” – Gerald Jampolsky
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“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.” – Rick Warren
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“The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces, just forgive.” – Iyanla Vanzant
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“Forgiveness is not about letting someone off the hook for their actions, but freeing ourselves of negative energies that bind us to them.”
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“To forgive is to acknowledge the wrong and pain, but having enough strength and respect for yourself to move on from the past and to have the courage to allow yourself to thrive in your future without wasting your energy holding onto resentment.”
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“Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed, for the most part, every family’s got them.”- Tyler Perry
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“Sometimes, people haven’t apologized because they’re ashamed. Forgive them anyway! Sometimes you have to be OK with a sorry you never got. Forgiveness unblocks your blessings. Do it. You’re worth it!”
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“We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.” – T.D. Jakes
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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget. The naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget.” – Thomas Szasz
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“Good to forgive, best to forget.” – Robert Browning
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“The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.” – Robert Downey Jr.
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“There err is human to forgive, divine.”- Alexander Pope
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“Learn to forgive, we live in an imperfect world, and people will make mistakes. Let go of anger and resentment and hold onto forgiving and moving on.”- Rashida Rowe
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“My child, your sins are forgiven.”- Mark 2:5
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“Remember when you forgive, you heal. And when you let go, you grow.”
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“Always pray to have eyes that see the best, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith.”
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“Anger and blaming others takes a lot of energy away from healing. One of the most powerful emotions that has to be expressed is forgiveness.” – Candace Pert
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“For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”- Matthew 6:14-15
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“Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Just wish them well and take care of yourself.”
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“You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.”- Maya Angelou
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“We are all in need of mercy.”- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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“Arguments drag out because one is too stubborn to forgive and the other is too proud to apologize.”
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“It is in the pardoning that we are pardoned.” – Francis of Assisi
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“Chances are someone has hurt you really bad and the only way you will be free from the anger is to forgive them.” – James Robor
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“Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reviewing your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what you should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go.” – Les Brown
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“I think when you’re happy, emotions are night near the top. Mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily, and I beg for forgiveness easily.”- Nell Carter
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“A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
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“No sin remains minor when accomplished by persistence, and no sin remains a major when accompanied by the seeking of forgiveness.”
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“Forgiveness is a promise, not a feeling. When your forgive other people, you are making a promise never to use their past sin against them.”
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“Resentments and grudges are things we dare not collect in our spirits, for they will spoil and rot, producing poison that will contaminate our words as well as our actions.” – Rick Orwell
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“We all know in our heart that forgiveness is the right thing, it’s just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.” – Nazanin Boniadi
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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
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“You can forgive someone and still not want to have anything to do with them. Forgiveness is about freeing yourself of the pain in your present. It’s not about making room for someone painful in your future.” – Karen Salmansohn
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“A strong woman loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again and perseveres. Not matter what live throws at her.”
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“There are two kinds of forgiveness. The kind when you forgive and you give them another chance or the kind you forgive but you move on without them. Use them both wisely.”
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“Forgive them, all of your thems. THe more thems you can forgive, the lighter you’ll feel.”- Karen Salmansohn
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“Forgiveness can make a marriage whole again.” – Elijah Davidson
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“Don’t get angry quickly, be kind, be forgiving, be patient.” – Patricia Meyers
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“Family recipe. 3 cups of forgivness. 1 gallon of friendship. A pinch of hope. A spoonful of laughter. Endless love.”
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“Sometimes the first step to forgiveness is understanding the other person is a complete idiot.”
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“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” – Marlene Dietrich
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“I do not bring with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who forgive are dead, the living have no right to forget.” – Chaim Herzog
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“Forgiving someone is easy but being able to trust them again is totally different story. Whether it’s a friendship or relationship. All bonds are built on trust. With it you have nothing.”
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“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” – Catherine Ponder
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“Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.” – Pope John Paul II
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“Forgiveness mean that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God’s love in our hearts.” – Elder David E. Sorensen
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“When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.”
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“The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation, instead of trying to hurt them back.”
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“Forgiveness. Don’t allow your pride to remember what your heart should forget.”
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“Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self acceptance begins and self love grows.”- Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“Forgive yourself, not just once, again and again. As many times as it takes to find peace.”
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“Reminder: forgiveness is a process, a choice you have to make over and over , everyday, until you are free of hurt.”
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“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Eward Bulwer-Lytton
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“Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.” – Nick Wechsler
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“Love is not how you forget, but how you forgive. Now how you listen, but how you understand. Not what you see, but how you feel and not how you let go but how you hold on.”
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“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.” – Saint Augustine
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“You’ve got to take the good with the sad, love what you’ve got and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from mistakes, but never regret.”
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“I’m a good enough person to forgive you, but not stupid enough to trust you again.”
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“Never retaliate when people say unkind things about you. Pay them back with a blessing and God will bless you.”- 1 Peter 3:9
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“Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander as well as ally types of evil behavior. Instead be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving on another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.” – #phesians 4:31-32
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“We can forgive from strength, only when we have made it clear we are hurt and that we are not ashamed of being hurt.” – Dr. Fred Luskin
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“Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you.”- A Course In Miracles
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“People don’t realize you can forgive them without ever speaking to them again. It’s not a grudge, it’s peace of mind.”
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“If you truly love someone then surely you will forgive that person in love, two people stay together not because they forget but because they forgive.”
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“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another persons throat.” – Paul Young
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“All religious traditions carry basically the same message. That is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.” – Dalai Lama
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“Stop reliving, rehearsing and re-analyzing past hurts and mistakes.”
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“A mothers love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” – Helen Steiner Rice
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“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
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“You will begin to heal when you let go of past hurts, forgive those who wronged you and learn to forgive yourself for mistakes.”
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“Forgive those who have hurt you, betrayed you, or broke your heart, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious when you open your heart.”
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“Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.” – Shannon Wiersbitzky
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“When you’re hurting, your mind will struggle to forgive. That’s when it’s wise to give your heart the time it needs.”
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“Forgiving does not mean being a doormat and allow people to continue to hurt and abuse you. Forgiveness is the first step, but then you need to take responsibility for your life and try to change the situations, places, interactions that allow others to hurt us.”
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“Forgiveness to the injured does belong, but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.” – John Dryden
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“New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated, like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy, or we’re not going to get there.” – Patty Jenkins
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“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Robert Quillen
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“I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.” – T.D. Jakes
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“Forgotten is forgiven.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Let is hurt, let it heal, let it go.”
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“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
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“None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.”- Kevin R. Duncan
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“Compassion and forgiveness are signs of strength.”
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“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake
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“In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may never have the chance again.”
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“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
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“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.” – Harriet Nelson
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“People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry.” – C. JoyBell C.
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“If you’re truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.” – Corbin Bernsen
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“Be the one who nurtures and builds. BE the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” – Marvin J. Ashton
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“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” – Wil Zues
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“Listens. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.” – Barbara Kingslover
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“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You’re done. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.” – Anne Lamott
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“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
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“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” – Jean Francois Cope
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“We are not perfect, forgive others as you wold want to be forgiven.” – Catherine Pulsifer
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“Forgiveness is a deep process, which is repeated over and over again in our hearts. It honors the grief and it honors the betrayal. And in its own time, it ripens into the freedom to truly forgive.” – Gina Sharp
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“If you look at everything I do, even in BOO, there’s a message, and it’s always faith, family, forgiveness. That’s the greatest gift I’ve been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.” – Tyler Perry
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“Forgiveness through Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning and thus keeping it unreal for you.” – A Course In Miracles
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“The moment you asked for forgiveness God forgave you. Now do your part and leave the guilt behind.”
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“Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.” – Korie Robertson
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“Self-forgiveness is an act of reclaiming your freedom from the past.” – Sandi Amorim
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“Once your realize we’re all equally capable of doing wonderful or horrible things to those we love, it’s easier to plant that seed of forgiveness and allow it to start growing.” – Linda Barbosa
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“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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“The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.” – Tyler Perry
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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Christians, whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That’s what Christianity is.” – Patricia Heaton
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“Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness and an eagerness to learn, and those are all good things.” – Dick Van Dyke
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“I am 100 percent in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.” – Hilary Clinton
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“Only the brave know how to forgive, a coward never forgave it, it is not in his nature.” – Laurence Sterne
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“The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality and humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.” – Gary Zukav
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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” – August Wilson
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“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” – Jane Austen
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“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.” – Scott Adams
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“Any fools knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive, women forgive, but never forget.” – Robert Jordan
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“To me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked. How do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time, remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed.” – Bell Books
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“I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek, I thought I was a beautiful example of the perfect man.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.”- Kevyn Aucoin
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“I did a lot of things I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. SO I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night.” – Mark Wahlberg
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“God forgives your sins but your nervous system won’t.” – Alfred Korzybski
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“If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self esteem and well-being.” – James E. Faust
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“What is forgiven is usually well remembered.” – Louis Dudek
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“I love discussing social issues, but I’m not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.” – Brie Larson
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“People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn’t. If you ask forgiveness for Him, then it’s gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.” – Shawn Michaels
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“It’s so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don’t major on the minors.” – Kimberly Schlapman
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“Look at the things you’ve done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out the wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.” – Molly Bloom
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“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is more praiseworthy, not so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give others women the courtesy of your compassion, respect and forgiveness. Love yourself, despite and because of your flaws.” – Jewell Parker Rhodes
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“Forgiveness is a way of opening the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life.” – Hilary Clinton
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“Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time though faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.” – Richard Rohr
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“If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgivness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.” – Keira Knightley
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“In teh Lord’s Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.” – Kevin DeYoung
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“Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.” – Benjamin Clementine
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“I clearly have done things that were wrong. I’ve clearly had to seek God’s forgiveness.” – Newt Gingrich
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“Many promising reconciliation have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.”- Charles Williams
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“Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.”- Ezra Taft Benson
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“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.” – Mason Cooley
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“I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.” – Matt Bevin
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“God will forgive me. It’s his job.” – Heinrich Heine
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“We need Grace and forgiveness.”- Pope Benedict XVI
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“As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgement, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again,, or stray from our chosen courage and begin again.” – Sharon Salzberg
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“A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We’re quick to lash our and assign blame, be we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.” – Judy Smith
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