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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
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"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
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"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
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"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
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"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
Morality

"Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond."
Metaphor

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
Equality

"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
Identity

"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."
Spiritual

"I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all."
Faith

"When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful."
Compassion

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
Purpose

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
Enemy

"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
Desire
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