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Forgiveness Quotes
!["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)."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"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)."
"Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."
"Isn't it strange that most of the people who find it very difficult to forgive others, are usually the same ones who expect others to forgive them for their wrongdoings?"
"When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes."
"You are definitely too blessed to be walking around with a heart full of grudges."
"Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke."
"Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness."
"We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than 'exist'."
"Blessed are you who forgive. You will forever be happy."
"You want to know what price I asked for forgiving Arobynn, Celaena?" Sam stood so still the he might have been a statue. "My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that."
"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
"Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering."
"We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
"Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless."
"A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls."
"Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others."
"When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done."
"Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth."
"Forgive to be free, let go to grow like a tree."
"Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto."
"People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always."
"A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends."
"No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is 'vyavasthit' [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don't tell anyone, 'you did wrong'. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think it."
"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."
"I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men."
"The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional."
"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."
"Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy."
"You have divine grace to forgive."
"Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness."
"Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. " Lord Krishna."
"Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies."
"Loving those who hate us means wantonly setting the stage and orchestrating the situation in a way that's sure to result in a production of great personal calamity. But to not love them is an even greater calamity."
"Be courageous enough to forgive yourself, never forget to be compassionate to yourself."
"In this world, if you raise objections saying, 'my mother-in-law harasses me. My father-in-law harasses me', then there is no end to it. Instead, just put up a sign that says, 'no objection whatsoever!' Even if someone comes raising objection [issues with you], you do not let any problems with him, can you or can you not keep it that way?"
"The wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone."
"It is gracious to overlook and offence."
"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."
"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."
"Forgive and love again."
"A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place."
"Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge."
"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."
"If one knows how to 'digest' an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]. And if he 'digests' an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent)."
"Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you."
"Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace."
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