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Forgiveness Quotes
"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
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"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
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"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
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"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
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"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions."
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"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 made clean again."
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"Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
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"People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] 'pratikraman' does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say 'sorry' or 'thank you'. There is no significance in that; the significance is of 'alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan' (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively)."
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"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."
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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
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"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
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"In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that."
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"Do not take to heart any ill-action."
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"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
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"China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks."
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"My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness."
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"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
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"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
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"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness."
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"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
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"Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."
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"To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others."
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"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."
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"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."
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"There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them."
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"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness."
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"Without forgiveness, there's no future."
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
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"Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on."
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"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
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"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
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"Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing."
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"Tell him everything, it is best. He will forgive you."
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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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"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier."
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"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
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"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility."
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"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
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"I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it."
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"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
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"In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted."
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"Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it."
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