Tag: Forgiveness

Quotes June 01, 2026

Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, “You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.” It’s saying, “You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
Jodi Picoult

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln

Take forgiveness slowly. Don’t blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.
Yoko Ono

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.
Fred Rogers

Quotes October 09, 2022

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce
 
 
 
 
“I’m sorry about yesterday,” she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. “Yesterday happens.”
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
 
 
 
 
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”
George MacDonald
 
 
 
 
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
 
 
 
 
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
Cherie Carter-Scott
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
William Arthur Ward
 
 
 
 
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
Thomas Szasz
 
 
 
 
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Louis B. Smedes
 
 
 
 
“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.”
Mason Cooley
 
 
 
 
“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
Marvin J. Ashton
 
 
 
 
“We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.”
Martha Kilpatrick
 
 
 
 
“This is one of my favorites: “True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectation.”
Everyday Power Blog
 
 
 
 

“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.”
Leo Christopher
 
 
 
 
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
Bram Stoker

Quotes December 15, 2020

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
John Mason
 
 
 
 
I love those who can smile in trouble.
Leonardo da Vinci
 
 
 
 
Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Ann Patchett,
writer
 
 
 
 
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
John le Carre,
writer
1931-2020
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boese
 
 
 
 
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
Corrie ten Boom
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
“If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.”
Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

Quotes February 02, 2019

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
Charlemagne,
emperor
 
 
 
 
You don’t get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
Paddy Chayefsky,
playwright, in “Marty”
 
 
 
 
“Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.”
Eric Thomas
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.”
Isaac Friedmann
 
 
 
 
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
 
 
 
 
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
 
 
 
 
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
Katherine Ponder
 
 
 
 
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
 
 
 
 
People really need help but may attack you if you do help. Help them anyway.
Everydaypowerblog.
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
Wm. Paul Young, The Shack