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"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance."
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"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"
"Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness."
"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."
"It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one."
"Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past."
"There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret."
"When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness."
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"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."
"Son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation."
"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."
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