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"Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us."
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"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."

"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."

"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."

"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."

"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."

"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."

"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."

"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."

"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."
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