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Forgiveness

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Chesterfield, Lord

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Euripides

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Twain, Mark

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Brown, Les

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Dietrich, Marlene

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself.

Auson

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Shaw, George Bernard

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

31.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Dolores Huerta

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Arendt, Hannah

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Wilde, Oscar

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Augustine, St.

37.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

41.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Butler, Samuel

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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Forgiveness is God's command.