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Forgiveness

And when a man injures and oppresses you and deals unjustly with you, you should deal kindly with him and forgive him. This you will strike at the root of hatred and enmity and he who is your enemy will become your friend.--The Koran
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.--Isabelle Holland (The Long Search)
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.--Ephesians 4:32 (NIV)
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.--Robert Muller
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.--Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest)
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.--Phillips Brooks
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.--Ausonius
Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.--Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness is loyalty to the truth of who you are. To truly forgive someone is to recognize who they are, to admit and affirm who they are, and to know that their best selves will be brought out only in the presence of an accepting and believing person. Forgiveness is basically the act of believing in another person and not allowing that person to be destroyed by self hatred. Forgiveness involves helping people uncover their self-worth, which is usually crusted over by their own self-hatred. This is a way of forgiving people that does not make you look good but makes them look good. That's the way God forgives us. In the act of forgiveness, God gives us back our dignity and self-worth. God is loyal to the truth that we are. God affirms that we are good persons who have sinned. God asserts that we are not bad.--Richard Roh
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.--Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.--Hannah More ("Christianity a Practical Principle" Practical Piety)
Forgiveness is the final form of love.--Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.--Anonymous
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.--George Macdonald
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.--William Arthur Ward (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 154)
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.--Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all of us love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour -- unceasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.--Henri Nouwen
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.--Isaac Friedmann
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.--Gerald Jampolsky
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.--Catherine Ponder
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.--G. Weatherly
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven.--George Herbert
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.--Charles Fillmore
"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.--Henry Ward Beecher
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?--Dolores Huerta
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.--Bahagavad Gita
Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.--Benjamin R. Barber (Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy)
It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.--Jessamyn West
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.--Saint Francis of Assisi
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge. It will heal nothing.--J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.--Malcolm Forbes
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.--Mohatmas Gandhi
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.--Norman Cousins
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.--Charles Williams
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.--Madame de Stael
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.--E. H. Chapin
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.--Robin Casarjian
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.--Dr. Joyce Brothers ("Reconnect With Your Family" Parade Magazine 11/4/2001)
One forgives to the degree that one loves.--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.--Malachy McCourt
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.--Dan Zadra
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
There is a hard law... When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.--Alan Paton
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.--Josh Billings
There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.--Robin Quivers
There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.--Sydney Harris
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.--Confucius
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.--William H. Walton
To err is human, to forgive, divine.--Alexander Pope
To forget a wrong is the best revenge.--Italian proverb
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.--Alexander Chase
True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.--David Ridge
We achieve inner health only through forgiveness--the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.--Joshua Loth Leibman
We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.--Paul Tillich
We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.--Nels F. S. Ferre
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.--Mahatma Gandhi
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.--Dale Carnegie
You are never so strong as when you forgive.--Kimberly Converse
You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.--Dan Fallon ("Getting Along in Families" CIGNA Well-Being Winter/Spring 2000)