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Forgiveness Quotes
"You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things."
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"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."
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"When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight."
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"Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge."
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"It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) 'Pratikraman'."
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"The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace."
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"I don't pretend to love someone who hurts me.I do something that prevent us hurting each other."
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"If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream,Gentles, do not reprehend:If you pardon, we will mend:And, as I am an honest Puck,If we have unearned luckNow to 'scape the serpent's tongue,We will make amends ere long;Else the Puck a liar call;So, good night unto you all.Give me your hands, if we be friends,And Robin shall restore amends."
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"Fuck the ones who hurt you Stop thinking about them, Get on with your own lifeThey'll eventually come back with apologies And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life."
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"Forgiveness is the flower of love and kindness, it only grows in the bravest heart."
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"Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done."
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"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."
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"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person."
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"Thank God for forgiveness of my sins."
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"I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past " whether parents, partners or friends " we should try and do that. It won't be perfect, it will be a compromise . . . but it might mean acceptance and, the big word, forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness heals any brokenness in the heart."
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"Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there."
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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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"There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on."
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"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."
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"I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I've had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I've got that backwards."
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"Forgive means for get the hurt and give love."
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"Forgive those who hurt you yesterday. Reward those who help you today. Remember those who help you tomorrow."
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"There are an incalculable-even infinite-number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action-motivated by the sheer imperative to move on and forget-can be more damaging than the original feelings of anger. Accepting forgiveness as pluralistic and as an ongoing, individualized process opens us up to realize the role that our own needs play in conflict resolution."
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"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion."
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"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."
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"Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy."
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"Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more."
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"It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection."
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"Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it."
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"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."
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"To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves."
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"Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain."
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"Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance-that's closer to human reality."
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"Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts."
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"Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest."
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"To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past."
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"One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!"
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"I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me-goaded by Charlie's bullying character-was easy to forgive."
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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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"As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins."
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"A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable."
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"Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive."
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"It is gracious to overlook an offence."
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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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"Love's voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart."
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"The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive."
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"We need to extend forgiveness to all who have hurt us. Forgive others who have trespass you just as your Heavenly Father forgives you. God's grace is the power to forgiveness."
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