Pray you now, forget and forgive.
William Shakespeare "King Lear", Act 4 scene 7
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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
Real Live Preacher RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Lawana Blackwell The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. Adams
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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius
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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Real Live Preacher RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
Real Live Preacher Real Live Preacher weblog, 02-15-06
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
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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 Moon and Sixpence
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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
Real Live Preacher RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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The heart has always the pardoning power.
Anne Sophie Swetchine Treasury of Women's Quotations
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From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
Molly Ringwald Quoted in "I Had to Let Go of my Anger" by Tony Vellela, a profile of Molly Ringwald published in the May 10, 1998 Parade magazine.
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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There is nothing so advantageous to a
Terence Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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If you would judge, understand.
Seneca Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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The offender never pardons.
George Herbert Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
Ruth Sheppard Body, Mind and Spirit
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Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
Penelope Sweet Body, Mind and Spirit
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It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow. But it may also lead to our setting unrealistically high standards for ourselves and for others.
Harold S. Kushner How Good Do We Have to Be? : A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness
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Keep a fair-sized cemetary in your backyard in which to bury the faults of your friends.
Henry Ward Beecher "Early Light," InTouch Magazine, November 1998.
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Good, to forgive;

Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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Love means to love that which is unloveable,

G.K. Chesterton A Grateful Heart
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Anger is a short madness.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
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It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Anger dies quickly with a good man.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33 Holy Bible
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One has only to grow older to become more tolerant. I see no fault that I might not have committed myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Words for All Occasions
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Things without all remedy

William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
Paul Tillich Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
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Things past redress are now with me past care.
William Shakespeare (King Richard II) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Man is never nearer the Divine than in his compassionate moments.
Joseph H. Hertz "Early Light", InTouch, October 1998.
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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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If we don't forgive ourselves for our
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
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To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
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A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over ``and over again will.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's column, "Fear of making mistakes is biggest mistake" in the 8/2/98 Arizona Republic.
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Forgiveness is the key to every aspect of spiritual growth.
Charles F. Stanley "The Victorious Pursuit: Winning Over Life's Struggles" by Charles F. Stanley, InTouch, March 1999.
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I am for frank explanations with friends in cases of affronts. They sometimes save a perishing friendship or place it on a firmer basis than before. But secret discontent must always end badly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus The Book of Positive Quotations
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The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.
Mme. de Stael Treasury of Women's Quotations
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There is always something rather absurd about the past.
Max Beerbohm The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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Some tension is necessary for the soul
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
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Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorrow, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our day upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place to be quickly reconciled.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
Merle Shain Simple Abundance
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Growth of the soul is our goal, and
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
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There are many find things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life...significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.
Grenville Kleiser Light from Many Lamps
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Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all the anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann von Goethe The Book of Positive Quotations
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