Quotation Explorer - 'Forgive'

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. - Jim Elliot
You you think you need to forgive someone...you got it all wrong. - Vivian Amis
If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself? - Debasish Mridha
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? - Dolores Huerta
When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering. - John Bruna
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. - Steve Maraboli
Learning how to forgive helps us grow spiritually because it acknowledges only God truly controls our destiny. - Karim Camara
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. - Corrie ten Boom
Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit. - Andrew Matthews
I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others. - Lauryn Hill
LIVE WELL___Forget them not, yet forgive, forgive..from self-harm, quita new page, right nowyour spirit's new year's eve. - Tara Estacaan
Then Joshua warned the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy and jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. - Anonymous
When you have a chance to forgive, think of all you'll gain and forget all you've lost. - Saim .A. Cheeda
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. - G.K. Chesterton
Wherever you love everything around you, forgive the past, show the gratitude, feel the joy of life, because you are a miracle still alive. - Debasish Mridha
You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice. - Sonia Rumzi
Forgive to be free, let go to grow like a tree. - Debasish Mridha
To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now? - Kamand Kojouri
We want Allah to forgive us, yet we are not willing to forgive others.Desire the same that you wish for your enemy,Pray for those who harmed you with the same passion that you pray for yourself.Be willing to open heaven’s door for your enemy.The greatest compassion lies in forgiveness. - Zarina Bibi
The first to apologize is the bravest.The first to forgive is the strongest.The first to forget is the happiest. - -Unknown
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton
Forgive but never forget - sanaa bahaddou
I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives. - Madam Secretary
Love without reason; forgive without judging. - Debasish Mridha
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness - Robert Muller
The cruelest thing is love that leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what, in fact, we do not forgive each other. - Luigina Sgarro
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. - Robert Frost
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. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself. - Paul Gitwaza
Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane. - Ilyas Kassam
Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive. - Ogwo David Emenike
To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone. - Debasish Mridha
Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future; Caterpillars always look up despite having no wings... and butterflies don't waste time crying over the legs they lost or dwelling on on the ground. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
Whether we, admit it or not ,but forgiveness is one of the special attributes and qualities of our creator. we cannot forgive and forget anything, incident or matter ,even if we try hard , still some stale memories keep on hurting like pieces of broken glass or sand particles. - AISHA RAHEEL
I have no desire to fight with anyone, anyway. I have a desire to forgive everyone, every way. - Debasish Mridha
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To refresh our lives, let us forget and forgive and begin anew. - Debasish Mridha
There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive? - Donna Lynn Hope
The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance. - Rebecca O’Dwyer
I will not hate you, of course i will not say : goodbye.But I will not forgive you, so i forget better. - Nabil TOUSSI
You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others. - Toni Sorenson
I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolish. - Tony Gaskins
There is always someone to forgive, if not another, than yourself. - Deborah L. Robinson
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. - J. K. Rowling
Life is too short. I forgive and forget. I have not time to get mad or hate. - Debasish Mridha
Be wise enough to forgive; be kind enough to love. - Debasish Mridha
Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest. - Debasish Mridha
Life is too short, hug tightly, love strongly, forgive oftenly, and always smile widely! - Zane Baker
You know you truly love somebody...When they hurt youAnd you still forgive themAnd they let you down But you don't leave themAnd they leave you But you can't help thinking about them - Mouloud Benzadi
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Forgiveness comes more readily when, we have faith in God and trust in His word. Such faith enables people to withstand the worst of humanity. It also enables people to look beyond themselves. More importantly, it enables them to forgive. - James E. Faust
Have compassion and forgive the mistakes of others. If you cannot forgive ignore but never hate them, because hatred will always lead to destruction. - Alok Jagawat
Forgive those who have made you suffer. - Henri Charrière
Move on, don’t let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on.- - RVM
Pray you now, forget and forgive. - William Shakespeare
To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it. - Joss Whedon
If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ... - Jim Brault
To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Weep. Forgive but don’t forget. Allow your tears to lay the path to your future happiness. - Ane Krstevska
To forgive others, you must forgive yourself first. - Debasish Mridha
To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace. - Debasish Mridha
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them becausethey need it--because we need it. I'm sure you felt much better after forgiving your son. - Bree Despain
This is the time to love. This is the time to forgive. This is the time to ponder. This is the time to wonder. - Debasish Mridha
5 rules to live a happier life: 1) Love yourself. 2) Do good. 3) Always forgive. 4) Harm no one. 5) Be positive. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself. - Tom Giaquinto
The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz
I am strong enough to forgive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you love and care enough, you will give a lot, you will forgive a lot. - Nurudeen Ushawu
. . . it’s okay if we get mad at each other?Yeah, Buddy, it’s OK, as long as we don’t stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up.from upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms. - Charlotte Snead
If you want to win a game of life, there is only one way you must be unpredictable. Otherwise life will never forgive such a deadly sin. - Elmar Hussein
When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present. - Shannon L. Alder
In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart. - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. - Sarah Sundin
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. - Thomas Fuller
Learning to forgive is the greatest way to find inner peace. - Debasish Mridha
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. - Simone Weil
Promise yourself to forgive everyone, love everyone, and judge no one. - Debasish Mridha
Who do you need to forgive? Letting go of what you have been holding onto will bring energy to everything good you want to bring into your life. - Eileen Anglin
Forgive is the last best thing i can do. - Ariel Seraphino
You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others. - Debasish Mridha
You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is a remedy to self. - Gugu Mona
As you lay yourself down to sleep tonight, think of something you are grateful for. Bless someone who was kind to you, and forgive someone who wasn't. - Eileen Anglin
Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget. - Ray A. Davis
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. - Ausonius
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. - Francois de Fenelon
I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us...or they'll never be able to borrow our car. - Emma Daley
...don't act like I didn't for you.I did. Hard. And for a long time.So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted. - Cecily von Ziegesar
Let us make this world a house of love and peace. Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice. Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice. Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace. - Debasish Mridha
In every sufferings you've encountered, there will be an opportunity to settle things in a right place. If that comes, grab it. Learn to forgive. - Mahadena Madid
Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for an eye will make us all blind. - Morra Quatro
God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. - C.S. Lewis
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. - Berton Averre
For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. - Will Rogers
To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry. - Mac MacKenzie
Moving on is not about forgetting the past; it’s about learning from it. Find the message in the mess…Cry. Forgive. Learn. That’s moving on. - Steve Maraboli
I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love. - Miguel Ruiz
Mindset Matters: Cut away the nonsense and cultivate an environment conducive to your personal well-being. Forgive yourself and others. Have the courage to move on. The battle is long... and in the end, it's only with yourself. - Steve Maraboli
How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become? - David "Doc" Luben
Forget and Forgive are the only way to move forward. - Befekadu G
God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others. - Matt Chandler
Let us remember that we need to forgive to be forgiven. - James E. Faust
When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Beautiful heart always thanks, appriciate and forgive people and enchance life. - Kishore Bansal
The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance. - Rebecca O'Dwyer - Centred Woman
If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy! - Stephen Richards
Forgive me, Magnus.’‘I don’t know if I can.’‘You must.’Still looking into the distance, he said, ‘You need my forgiveness?’‘No. I’m dead. You can do nothing for me. You need to forgive me so you can live. - Raymond E. Feist
In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world. - Sergei Lukyanenko
To be happy, you have to love and forgive. - Debasish Mridha
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. - George Herbert
Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere. - Debasish Mridha
We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we’ll git what we ast for. They ain’t no gar’ntee thet we ain’t go’n have no troubles and ain’t go’n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God’ll forgive us if’n we ast Him to. - Olive Ann Burns
I'm a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again. - Annette Thomas
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - Edward Chapin
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together. - Charles Dickens
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz
Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love. - Andrea T. Goeglein
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. - Heinrich Heine
To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future; and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment. - Peter Frederick Strawson
One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and forget. - Franklin P. Jones
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! - C. JoyBell C.
I forgive, I always do. My type of love goes on with or without you. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Never forget the nine most important words of any family-I love you.You are beautiful.Please forgive me. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The more you learn to forgive others; the more you gain the power of love. - Debasish Mridha
If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty - German Proverb
Like Jesus, forgive those who are hurting you because they don't know what they are doing. - Debasish Mridha
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. - Max Lucado
For your loss, never regret.But forgive and forget. - Debasish Mridha
If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right and love again. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. - Tyler Perry
Do hugs, not drugs. Spread love, not legs. Respect, don't judge. Listen more, talk less. Understand, don't assume. Forgive and forget..!! - Aagam Shah
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. - Robert Frost
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you. - Alan Cohen
How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why? - PureDragonWolf
The best Morning Prayer for endless peace would be, Today I will forgive everyone for their mistakes. Today I will love everyone without judging them. Today I will be kind to everyone even if they do not deserve it. Today I will be a fountain of peace to create waves of joy around me. - Debasish Mridha
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him. - Bertrand Russell
Sometimes all you need is to forgive yourself. - Unarine Ramaru
The forgiveness of God flows through me and because I am forgiven, I can forgive. - Patience Johnson
Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough - Jeanette Coron
If you think you need to forgive anyone....you got it all wrong. - Vivian Amis
The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet. - J. Raymond
EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said -- and God forgive it! - Ambrose Bierce
Forgive me, my sons. I've been defeated by this despicable idiot. This is as far as I go.I leave everything to you.You have my gratitude. Farewell, my sons. - Whitebeard
If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you. - Natalie Lloyd
You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on. - Toni Sorenson
When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity. - Balroop Singh
A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first. - Dee Henderson
One of my greatest lessons of growth was to stop dwelling in the past and forgive myself and others from all the pain and hurt that was caused. When I finally let go and released, I was free with glee. - Jason Micheal Ratliff
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. - Karl Lagerfeld
The difference between you and me is that I always forgive you. - Anuj Kr. Thakur
Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back. - Steve Goodier
Jesus didn’t die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin. - Paula Hendricks
Don't expect people to always understand you. Instead, learn to understand them. Then Accept, Forgive & Love unconditionally. This is a sure way to be Happy. - RVM
To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope
I don't do it for Michael. I do it for them.""Them?""People.""They're broken! Flawed!""Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive. - Gabriel and Lucifer
Dare to believeDare to liveDare to actDare to factDare to sailDare to failDare to giveDare to forgive - Debasish Mridha
Let us talk about our love, joy and happiness. Let us forgive and forget talking about misery and sadness. - Debasish Mridha
You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society. - Darnell Lamont Walker
To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect. - Human Angels
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. - Sue Monk Kidd
Forgive your self and others by removing the anger that stands in your way and replace it with love, to heal your soul and your spirit. - Angie karan
Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him. - C.S. Lewis
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged - Heinrich Heine
The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements. - Bryant McGill
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - Jean de La Bruyère
Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget. - Jennifer Elisabeth
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. - Robert Frost
When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not about how long you can live , it's about how long you can forget and forgive. - Abdel Halim Boudekhana
Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made. - Neil T. Anderson
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. - Randy K. Milholland
Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better. - Sachin Kumar Puli
So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life. - Debasish Mridha
We don’t have the right to forgive people; it is not only about our kindness or gentleness, it is about keeping the justice stable. - M.F. Moonzajer
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession) - Heinrich Heine
Forgive transgressions committed by you or others today.Only then can you have peace tomorrow. - Grandaddy BAD
Never forget to forgive yourself; always remember to love yourself. - Debasish Mridha
I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them. - Saurabh Sharma
Accept love with love, but never forget to forgive hate with love. - Debasish Mridha
...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both. - Miguel Syjuco
if it seems you can't forgive remember how much you've been forgiven - Alfred Torre
Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it. - Debasish Mridha
Forget and forgive your past. Focus on your future, but never forget to act at the present moment. - Debasish Mridha
I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes. - Gabrielle Zevin
Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them. - Brett
None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. - Dan Harmon
When you are angry—stop, breath, relax, step back, think, and forgive before you react. - Debasish Mridha
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde
They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely--your mistakes. - Friedrich Nietzsche
All of us at some time will have someone to forgive for something they did or failed to do. And all of us at some time will need forgiveness for something we did or failed to do. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Do not find faults, only forgive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive. - Ogwo David Emenike
If there were two enemies hating each other for a long time, to me, the winner would be the one who finally has the courage to forgive. - Primadonna Angela
When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them. - Stormie Omartian
Forgive and set your self free. When we forgive, we heal our own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for our heart. - Angie karan
I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate. - AKA
Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him worthier to be loved. - Alfred Tennyson
I've found that one of the most important things in life is to learn how to forgive yourself. - Sai Marie Johnson
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. - Emma Goldman
To forgive is not for the sole sake of relieving another of their guilt, but rather for the sake of the soul that had been perpetrated upon! - DC Gunnersen
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde
Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. - Roy Bennett
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To never avenge yourselves (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God’s blessing also on their lives. - Greg Gordon
If we repent, the Lord will forgive us. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy. - Gugu Mona
Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it. - Debasish Mridha
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's. - Linda Berdoll
You can forget what people said and did, but you can never forget how they made you feel. You can forgive the people who hurt you, but you will remember what the taught you. - J. C. Read
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. - O.A. Battista
Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. - Stephen Richards
To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault. - Richard Paul Evans
To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes courage. - Victoria Wen
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
Don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow. - Louisa May Alcott
Speak with silence, listen with heart, and forgive with kindness. - Debasish Mridha
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. - H.L. Mencken
The time before was slow, as much as I grow as much the time don't forgive. As most people will say if you fuck the past, the past fucks you! - Deyth Banger
I may not give you the forgiveness you're asking, but i'm giving you forever to make me forgive you. - JCrov
I've learned a lot this year...I've learned that some people will wrong you, forgive them anyway.I've learned that things might not work out as you thought they should, do them anyway.But what struck me the most isno matter how good or bad things are, life goes on, so live it anyway. - Zane Baker
Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free. - Debasish Mridha
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. - George Bernard Shaw
GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us. - Errol Anthony Smythe.
Be courageous enough to forgive yourself; never forget to be compassionate to yourself. - Debasish Mridha
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson. - Paulo Coelho
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. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone. - Conchitina Cruz
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do. - Elizabeth George
Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on. - Robert Tew
At times we must forgive others even when they don’t deserve it. We forgive them because we deserve it. Free yourself. - DeWayne Owens
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.) - Heinrich Heine
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. - Franklin P. Jones
You forgive me coz you are great; I'm too bad coz I still love you. - Navnath Godse
People say, 'It's hard to forgive...et al'. I think it's much harder to live peacefully. So, forgive and focus on living peacefully. - m.ralte
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - C.S. Lewis
You forgive them and move on. - Auliq Ice
You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again! - Stephen Richards
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. - Lawrence G. Lovasik
God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I’m working on doing things better, and the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am. - Eleanor Brownn
You're badly wounded.You're bleeding but not cut.You feel like dying but you're not.It’s a Love accident an emotional injury.You are not going to the hospital, aren't you?You don't need medicines and first aides, don't you?You just need to move on. Accept it, forgive and forget it. - Bradley B. Dalina
You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive. - Shannon L. Alder
If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers. - Auliq Ice
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. / Nije problem dijete koje se boji mraka; prava tragedija su odrasli koji se boje svjetla. - Plato
Want more energy? Drink water. Sleep deep. Love passionately. Eat clean. Forgive completely. Create something new. - Toni Sorenson
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. - Publilius Syrus
I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either! - Nehali Lalwani
We forget the good people do, but remember the not-so-good they might have intentionally or intentionally done !Be Brave and Forgive ! - Sham Hinduja
Time can heal and time can help forgive and forget because in time the memories fade. The time will go so slow so fast and love will stay if it's right. - Kate McGahan
For me to forgive my ex, he would have to sign a marriage contract with his tears and seal it with his blood. - Natalya Vorobyova
When love plays your life, and left you nothing but a memory of a broken heart heart,let the pain runs out in your eyes, it will make you feel better.Don't think you're strong when you're not, it will only makes you feel weaker.Be wise, accept, forgive and forget with no regret. - Bradley B. Dalina
When you forgive somebody, it’s not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from that. And you need to rise above that. - Lacey Sturm
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde
We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours. - Golda Meir
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. - Robert Jordan
When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like. - Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
You can never forgive yourself without forgiving others. Forgive others to find and create peace in your soul. - Debasish Mridha
The best way to deal with your past is not to avoid thinking about it or trying to forget it, but to accept it happened, forgive yourself and move on. - Karon Waddell
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. - John Sheffield
To be happy, learn to forget and forgive. - Debasish Mridha
Give me the power to love; give me the power to be kind. Give me the power to forgive; and give me the power to be non-judgmental. - Debasish Mridha
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. - Maximilien de Robespierre
All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. - Asa Don Brown
God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves? - Greg Gordon
Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love. - Debasish Mridha
What if she'd sought God's Word for her pain? What if she'd resolved to forgive Rees for hurting her and trusted God to work that forgiveness out in her heart, so that she would have arrived in London with an attitude of humility and trust in God to lead her to the right person? - Axtell Ruth
Burdens of life become lighter when your heart is filled with love and we learn to forgive and forget with profound kindness. - Debasish Mridha
There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive. - Jim George
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. - Oscar Wilde
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face. - Thomas Hardy
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. - Hyman G. Rickover
Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ... - J.K. Rowling
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. - Jay Woodman
I forgive you, only if you promise to be happy in whatever you do. - X H
I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet. - Anthony Ervin
If you can't forgive, forget better. - Nabil TOUSSI
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. - Tyler Perry
The secret to happiness, peace, and self-confidence is to forgive yourself and forgive others. - Debasish Mridha
When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now. - Shannon L. Alder
I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. - Karen E. Quinones Miller
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. - Jim Henson
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. - Samuel Butler
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight. - Debasish Mridha
Your refusal to forgive one who has sinned against you us a manifestation of hypocrisy - a telltale sign that either you have not experenced God's forgiving grace, or that you take such grace for granted. - Joe Thorn
The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive. - Roy Bennett
I started living when I learnt to be patient with myself and others, I have learnt to forgive myself and others and I have learnt to continually cheer myself when the going gets tough. - Stan The Man SA
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. - Jane Austen
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. - Lewis B. Smedes
The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly. - Himmilicious
The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin. - Rick Joyner
To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - Shannon L. Alder
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. - Diana Princess of Wales
If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? If you can’t forgive yourself, how can you forgive others? - Debasish Mridha
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us. - John Eldredge
I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself. - Andre Agassi
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. - Joyce Cary
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton
A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive. - Jason Versey
A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go. - Anthony Liccione
We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color. - Paul Bamikole
If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one. - Robert Brault
We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace. - Debasish Mridha
To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love. - Debasish Mridha
Forgive the past to welcome the future. - Debasish Mridha
My business is to forgive others. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them. - Shaikh Ashraf
To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. - Quentin Crisp
We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge, and do not hold me responsible for what they say. - Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
Forgiveness is a very curious thing, in that you must not only know how to forgive; but you must also know how to accept forgiveness. Both of these aspects are equally important. When someone forgives you— believe it. - C. JoyBell C.
Trust your instincts, love with your whole heart, forgive, and never take anything for granted. - Terri Haynes Roach
When love plays your life, and left you nothing but a memory of a broken heart,let the pain runs out in your eyes, it will make you feel better.Don't think you're strong when you're not, it will only makes you feel weaker.Be wise, accept, forgive and forget with no regret. - Bradley B. Dalina
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. - Logan Pearsall Smith
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. - W. Somerset Maugham
In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Forgiveness is one of the keys to moving forward because if you don't forgive, you are stuck in the past. - Terraine Francois
Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes. - Debasish Mridha
You cannot love if you cannot forgive. - Kemi Sogunle
Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. - François Fénelon
So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment. - Jane Smiley
The more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him. - Debasish Mridha
When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon't expect him to thank or forgive you. - John Darnielle
Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is. - Justin Cronin
Learn to forgive "HATERS" and people who think less of you. Don't bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love. - Henry Johnson Jr
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. - Oscar Wilde
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? - L. M. Montgomery
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. - Sue Monk Kidd
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.. - Jon Krakauer
He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God. - Edmond Manning
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. - Jesse Jackson
Allowing yourself to forgive will fuel your goals and life vision with new energy. - Eileen Anglin
If you want inner peace, unconditionally forgive everyone. If you want world peace, be an example and love everyone. - Debasish Mridha
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. - William Hazlitt
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