Quotes on Forgiveness

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.