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Forgiveness Quotes


"She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot."


"Admire your offenders for they are never your offenders. They are only teachers in the class of forgiveness, tolerance and patience. How can you learn how to forgive when you have not been offended? How can you learn how to forgive seventy seven times seven when people have not offended you seventy seven times? Smile if you get offended, there is a lessons to learn!"


"Forgiveness is the flower of love and kindness, it only grows in the bravest heart."


"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."


"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"


"Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done."


"While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to."


"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."


"You are definitely too blessed to be walking around with a heart full of grudges."


"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."


"Forgive means for get the hurt and give love."


"The wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone."


"A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place."


"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)."


"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."


"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"


"Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed is considered atikraman [Hurtful karma]. If you do pratikraman [Ask for forgiveness], they will all go away."


"Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?"


"Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free."


"By forgiving we become free."


"Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you."


"Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future."


"The return to the 'Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name' allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my heavenly Father be the God whose unlimited, unconditional love melts away all resentments and anger and makes me free to love beyond the need to please or find approval."



"She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them."



"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."


"Then forgive him. And if you can't forgive, at least forget, for he meant you no harm, however rash that act was."


"Over done forgotten gone now my troubles will move on."


"I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years."


"Forgiveness is a practiced and fervrent process."


"I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends."


"Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith."


"We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it."


"When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight."


"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."


"People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always."


"Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy."


"Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies."


"Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy."


"It is gracious to overlook and offence."


"Forgive and love again."


"Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest."


"Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace."


"I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me."


"Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, 'Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make', so he will show you the solution."


"Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive."


"Forgiveness is the joy of friendship."
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