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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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"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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"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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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
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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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"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
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"Do not take to heart any ill-action."
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"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
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"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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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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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
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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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"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
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"Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."
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"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
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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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"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
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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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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
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"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."
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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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"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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"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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"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
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"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody."
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"Without forgiveness, there's no future."
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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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"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
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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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"When I found God forgiveness found me."
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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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"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
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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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