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"Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless."
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"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."

"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."

"Accomplishments don't erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."

"Thank God for forgiveness of my sins."

"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."
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"There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant."

"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

"The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason."

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

"But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty."

"The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side."

"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."
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