Forgiveness Quotes

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde

Pray you now, forget and forgive. – William Shakespeare

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Samuel Johnson

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. – Josh Billings

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. – Glenn Clark

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. – Franklin P. Jones

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

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

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

The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart – far more damaging to yourself than to them. – Lawana Blackwell

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – The Buddha

Forgiveness … is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. – Joan Borysenko

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.” Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. – Henry Ward Beecher

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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. – Catherine Ponder

Forgive and Forget Quotes

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. – Zoe Akins

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. – Jean Paul Richter

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. – Alden Nowlan

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

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper

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

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time. – Caroline Myss

Quotes about Forgiveness and Love

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart — not from the mind. – Sheri Rosenthal

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. – Bryant H. McGill

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. – Peter von Winter

Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love’s power to break nature’s rule. – Lewis B. Smedes

Love them as they are, and forgive them everything. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love there are always miracles. – Willa Cather

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. – Epictetus

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. – Mother Teresa

As forgiveness can illumine a human life, even so love, can enlarge A human mind. – Sri Chinmoy

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. – Robert Muller

Quotes about Forgiveness and Moving On

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it is a decision. – Randall Worley

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. – Marlene Deitrich

Forgiveness it the key to action and freedom. – Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. – George MacDonald

Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness. – Tina Dayton

To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneself. – Eugenia Tripputi

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Thoughtful Quotes about Life

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao-Tzu

Don’t care what people say,
Just follow your own way,
Don’t give up and lose the chance,
To return to innocence. – Return to Innocence, Enigma

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. – Prince William

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. – Theodore Roosevelt

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

I am easy. I’m kind, thoughtful, benevolent, easygoing. I’m a pushover. – Drayton McLane

Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. – Terri Guillemets

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

Thoughtful Quotes about Friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes. – Unknown

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. – Thomas Wilson

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately. – Mark Twain

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy. – Bob Marley

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. – C.S. Lewis

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well. – Ashley Young

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. – Ethel Mumford

To the query, ‘What is a friend?’ his reply was ‘A single soul dwelling in two bodies.’ – Aristotle

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. – Charles Colton

The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. – Mark Twain

Thoughtful Quotes about Love

Be kind to one another. – Jim Henson

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. – Oscar Wilde

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. – Phyllis Diller

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. – Mark Overby

Thou art to me a delicious torment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. – Voltaire

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. – William Hazlitt

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there? – Richard Bach

When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. – Leo Tolstoy

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