Forgiveness

" One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything." ~ Leo Tolstoy

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~ Mark Twain

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself." ~ Louise L. Hay

The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive! ~ William Wordsworth

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ~ Hannah More

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or a prince to grant a pardon. ~  Arthur J. Rehrat

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet it costs nothing. ~ Betty Smith

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. ~ Alice Miller

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. ~ Caroline Myss

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away! ~ Shaikah Saadi

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive. ~ Molly Ringwall

We pardon as long as we love. ~ FranÁois de La Rochefoucauld

Holding on to anger, resentment, and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache, and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ~ Joan Lunden

"All disease comes from a state of unforgiveness." ~ A Course In Miracles

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue. ~ Jimmy Santiago Baca

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me. ~Paramahansa Yogananda

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same. ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter

I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

To err is human, to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope

He who forgives ends a quarrel. ~ African Proverb

I don't even remember what it was I was mad about and I don't care. Whatever it was that you did, I forgive you. ~ Iris Rainer Dart

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. ~ Mother Teresa

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do to get on the spiritual path. If you canít do it, you can forget about getting to higher levels of awareness and creating real magic in your life. ~ Wayne Dyer

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ~ Jessamyn West

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith. ~ Richard Salter Storrs

"Forgotten is forgiven." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

What power has love but forgiveness?" ~ William Carlos Williams

Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of the world. Through your forgiveness does the truth about your self return to your memory. ~ Course in Miracles

He who forgives ends a quarrel. ~ African Proverb

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you out of love takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. ~ Dag Hammarskjd

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~ Norman Cousins

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. ~ Alan Paton

We pardon to the extent that we love. ~ La Rouchefouchauld

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty. ~ German Proverb

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. ~ Ann Landers

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 made clean again. ~ Dag Hammarskjd

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me. ~ Reba McEntire

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the sire. ~ Sidney J. Harris

"We forgive too little; forget too much." ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine

Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ~ Laurence Sterne

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. ~ Heinrich Heine

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~ George Herbert

There's no point burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~ Sidney J. Harris

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ~ Hannah Arendt

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. ~ Thomas Fuller