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Alexander Chase
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Anonymous
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Ausonius
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Bahagavad Gita
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.
Benjamin R. Barber Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
Catherine Ponder
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Charles Fillmore
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
Charles Williams
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.
Dale Carnegie
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
Dan Fallon Getting Along in Families CIGNA Well-Being Winter/Spring 2000
You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.
Dan Zadra
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
David Ridge
True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.
Dolores Huerta
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dr. Joyce Brothers Reconnect With Your Family Parade Magazine 11/4/2001
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.
E. H. Chapin
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
 
 
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