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Forgiveness Quotes
"Don't just shun them; don't kill them! Don't curse them; don't harm them! Pray for them, for they all a good part of the story; get understanding, and disarm them with wit and wisdom!"
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"Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business."
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"Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow."
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"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
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"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."
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"The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness."
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"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."
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"If you ever leave me again,' she said, her eyes stinging, 'I swear to all the gods-'Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth.'Consider me warned,' Percy said. 'I missed you, too."
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"These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost."
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"There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges-the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light."
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"We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past."
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"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
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"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
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"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
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"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
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"It's best to be ruthless with the past."
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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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"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
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"Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way."
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"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."
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"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"
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"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
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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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"You are so much more than your mistakes."
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"I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years."
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"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
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"One bad turn does not excuse another."
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"Forgiveness brings healing."
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"Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith."
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"Sometimes you have to look past a person's mistakes to see God's presence."
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"Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential."
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"A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul."
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"Whenever you hold a grudge towards someone, you're only hurting you. Because the other person could care less about the emotions you're going through. Their main objective was to hurt you. Now you must let go, move on, and focus on your life. Don't continue to burden your spirit."
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"There is love in every human heart."
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"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."
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"Even brahmins [people belonging to the caste who follow ritual practices] will not delve in the past and yet these intellectuals keep remembering, 'This person cheated me. This man called me stupid!' The flow of speech is like the flow of water. How can we ask it, 'How did you come here tumbling down?"
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"If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] ."
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"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
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"To be social is to be forgiving."
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"Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures."
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"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
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"You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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