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Forgiveness

Forgotten is forgiven.

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Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Brown, Les

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Boese, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Harris, Sidney J.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

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

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

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The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Euripides

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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

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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preacher

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And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]

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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

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17]

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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Mitchell, Margaret

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heine, Heinrich

35.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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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

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No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

Real Live Preacher

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Huxley, Aldous

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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

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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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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

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