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Inspirational Quotes About Forgiveness
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“You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.”
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“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
Actress, Humanitarian
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“Maintain composure in times of heightened emotion, reacting only when thoughts are calm and clear. Being sensible will open doors for solutions and creativity.”
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“It's okay to look back at the past. Just don't stare.”
Award Winning Investigative Consumer Journalist
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“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
English Essayist, Poet, Playwright And Politician.
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“Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.”
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“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Novelist
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“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
Clergyman, Social Reformer
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
Humorist, Essayist
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“It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
Humorist, Essayist
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“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Poet, Artist
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“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
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“Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.”
Clergyman, Theologian
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“Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.”
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“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
Editor, Writer
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“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
Writer, Moralist
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
American Newspaper Columnist
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“The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.”
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“Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.”
Universalist Minister, Author
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.”
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.”
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“To understand all is to forgive all.”
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“They learn tolerance for others' faults through our tolerance of their own.”
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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Author, Ethicist, Theologian
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“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”
Novelist
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Author, Humorist
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“To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.”
Composer, Conductor
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“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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American Political Leader, Author
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“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
Author
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“He who forgives ends the quarrel.”
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“Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.”
Roman Poet
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“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”
Greek Tragedian
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“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Former Employee Of The United Nations
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“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time”
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“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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