Quotes November 19, 2019

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
 
 
 
 
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
Bryant H. McGill
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
Wm. Paul Young, The Shack
 
 
 
 
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
Norman Cousins
 
 
 
 
“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds
 
 
 
 
“I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, every day, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself “That’s just fine”. You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don’t even see those things anymore. Because that’s what love is like.”
C. JoyBell C.
 
 
 
 
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”
Cherie Carter-Scott
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“Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.”
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
 
 
 
 
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
Robert Quillen
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt
 
 
 
 
“Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.”
Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
 
 
 
 
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
George Herbert
 
 
 
 
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
Emma Goldman
 
 
 
 
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.”
“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”
Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
 
 
 
 
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”
Indira Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy
 
 
 
 
“If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.”
Robert Brault
 
 
 
 
“A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”
William Arthur Ward
 
 
 
 
“People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.”
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
 
 
 
 
“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-just like it does for you and me.”
Sara Paddison
 
 
 
 
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
 
 
 
 
“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.”
Alice Duer Miller
 
 
 
 
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
Marianne Williamson
 
 
 
 
“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
Alison Croggon
 
 
 
 
“I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.”
Deb Caletti
 
 
 
 
“The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
“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
 
 
 
 
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
Marlene Dietrich
 
 
 
 
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
Rita Mae Brown
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.”
Anonymous