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Forgiveness Quotes
"She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating."
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"I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous."
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"Forgiveness happens every time we surrender our attachment to pain."
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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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"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others."
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"I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man."
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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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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches beyond the horizon, beyond our capacity to perceive or measure, and that in many cases those who trespass against you do so out of a misery that means the punishment preceded and even precipitated the crime. Maybe that's acceptance."
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"Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. " Lord Krishna."
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"Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy."
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"It's best to be ruthless with the past."
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"The wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone."
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"It is gracious to overlook and offence."
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"There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret."
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"When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself--well, you can forgive yourself for those."
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"Forgive and love again."
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"Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace."
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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 most compassionate way toward the peace."
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"Anger slowly. Forgive quickly. Trust cautiously. Love easily."
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"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"
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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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"It is gracious to overlook an offence."
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"Forgiveness is the joy of friendship."
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"By forgiving we become free."
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"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."
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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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"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
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"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."
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"Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity."
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"When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present."
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"Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back."
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"Forgiveness is the best tonic for heart."
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"Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life."
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
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"I forgive you, but I won't forget what you did, not in some threatening, I don't really forgive you kind of way, but just because what you did was shitty and really hurt me and I can't imagine it suddenly disappearing from my memory. In a way, it's even cooler that I'll remember that shitty thing you did to me, and you'll remember that shitty thing I did to you. That means we didn't need to forget that we hurt each other in order to love each other still. We figured out a way to forgive each other, for real, and still be friends. How beautiful, yes? Let's never forget that, either."
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