Forgiveness Quotes
Jon Krakauer
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
3392 Wil Zeus
Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.
2653 Jourdane Erasquin
I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.
2980 Asa Don Brown
Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.
2637 Rachael Wade
Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest.
2680 Ashly Lorenzana
Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.
3649 Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have the grace to hug someone, never miss this sacred moment.
1445 Holly Lynn Payne
....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.
2809 Asa Don Brown
All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.
2167 Asa Don Brown
In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.
4461 Orson Scott Card
When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
2720 G.K. Chesterton
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
2265 Thomas Stephen Szasz
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
1742 Jourdane Erasquin
If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.
4754 Rodolfo Costa
Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.
3595 Vivian Amis
Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.
4516 Jourdane Erasquin
There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.
1370 Hussein Abdallah
The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.
1463 Patsie Smith
To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.
3253 Kristina McMorris
The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in the minutiae of every day life; it was in the traded smiles during a radio show or the peaceful lulls on an evening stroll.
3288 Rasheed Ogunlaru
The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free
4540 Asa Don Brown
Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.
4380 Michele L. Rivera
Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?
3588 Paulo Coelho
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
1157 Julieanne O'Connor
If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.
4367 Julieanne O'Connor
You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more.
1962 Julieanne O'Connor
When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.
4645 Julieanne O'Connor
Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.
3399 J.B. McGee
None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.
2134 Bill Willingham
Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
2084 Unarine Ramaru
If you love someone let them know, if you hate someone learn to love them.
3154 Hiroko Sakai
The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.
2747 Anaïs Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook.
1047 Henri J.M. Nouwen
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
2477 Marvin J. Ashton
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.
1602 Kahlil Gibran
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.
It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
3181 C.S. Lewis
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
1366 Tori Spelling
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
4626 Bell Hooks
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.
1016 C. JoyBell C.
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!
4359 Will Smith
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
2428 Libba Bray
But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
4320 Frederick Buechner
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
3250 Jim Beaver
Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.
4863 Yvonne Wood
... In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive
2063 Nelson Mandela
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
2493 Dan Brown
Forgiveness is God's greatest gift
3842 Sue Monk Kidd
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
4586 Glenn Beck
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
4144 Joyce Cary
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
2409 Michael Bassey Johnson
A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.
4834 John Green
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.
4517 Enock Maregesi
Kama umefanya au umesema kitu kibaya na ukasema ukweli mbele ya mtu au ya watu, omba msamaha kupata tena kibali cha umma.
4932 Abhishek Shukla
To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.
2154 Abhishek Shukla
Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.
1578 Stefan Molyneux
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
1667 Pema Chödrön
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
2604 Aberjhani
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
3259 Ilyas Kassam
Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.
4194 Ana Monnar
At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.
3139 E.A. Bucchianeri
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
2599 Cheryl Strayed
You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.
1282 Amit Kalantri
Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.
4236 Amit Kalantri
Peace shouldn't be an option, it must be the objective, peace shouldn't be a possibility, it must be the purpose.
3147 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Your choices are the reason you are who you are today. When you look back, maybe thinking you shouldn't have done a particular thing, don't stay there. Live for this very moment. After all, this moment is what really matters, your past has come and gone. Move on,
4195 Albert Camus
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
4190 Nobuhiro Watsuki
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.
-Kenshin to Eiji
1822 Jane Austen
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
1192 Auliq Ice
we all love people in our life. way of expressing it may change but the intensity never fluctuates. there are comparisons and fights in any relation because of the same reason of their existence.
2786 Jo De Raman
When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.
3734 Abhishek Shukla
To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our 'EYE' and Close our 'I
4982 Abhishek Shukla
Have and show motivation to do and learn. That's the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.
3492 Asa Don Brown
Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit.
4800 Wayne Chirisa
Revenge is but a temporary gratification, but that which stays within you longer is the guilt and sin after revenging making you not much of a better person.
4842 Abhishek Shukla
The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as "EGO" in our Society
3278 Abhishek Shukla
The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED.
3963 Abhishek Shukla
Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!
1566 Abhishek Shukla
The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay
1607 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.
1176 Abhishek Shukla
Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise
1471 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not realize until you're in too deep.
3592 Abhishek Shukla
The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.
4279 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom
4877 Abhishek Shukla
It’s all about “Priorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy
3894 Abhishek Shukla
Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES
2492 Abhishek Shukla
The only principle of Success in Life :"You must be present to win.
1445 Abhishek Shukla
The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision
2940 Abhishek Shukla
Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.
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