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Forgiveness Quotes
"People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!"
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"It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do."
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"How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned."
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"God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace."
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"There's a destructive power in unforgiveness and unforgiveness controls you in a negative way. It's time to let it all go! You become strong when you genuinely forgive. You become empowered when you genuinely forgive. You gain back your inner peace when you genuinely forgive. You release stress, bitterness and anger when you genuinely forgive. But most importantly, you're able to live your best life when you genuinely forgive. Give yourself permission to live life free of toxic thoughts, feelings, and energy. Forgive!"
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"You can never forgive yourself without forgiving others. Forgive others to find and create peace in your soul."
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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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"Forgive to set yourself free, love to set the prisoner free."
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"There is love in every human heart."
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"When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'"
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"Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past."
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"Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness is liberation. Forgiveness is a choice. If you forgive and forget you are free but, if you keep it, you shall always have it and it shall always rule and direct your heart, mind, body and spirit."
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"Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."
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"The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven."
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"Forgiveness happens every time we surrender our attachment to pain."
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"A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go."
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"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others."
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"Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them."
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"Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path. You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside."
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"If people confess to you their mistakes; Give them a chance, Because you really need those who have learnt what is right."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain."
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"To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past."
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"If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love."
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"Love's voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart."
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"Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family."
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"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."
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"Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back."
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"Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life."
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"You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions."
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"But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn't make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She'd always been too desperate about Jake. Always."
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"Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself."
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"Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health."
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"Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers."
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"Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins."
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"Forgiveness is first act of faith."
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"Forgiveness is the fruit of fellowship."
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"Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget."
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"To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are."
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"She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone."
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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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