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"Forgiveness
does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
- Anonymous
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“True
forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”
- Oprah Winfrey |
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“Forgiveness is
not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
- Martin Luther King Jr |
“The weak
can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
- Mahatma
Gandhi
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“Mistakes
are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
- Bruce
Lee
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“To be a
Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the
inexcusable in you.”
- C.S. Lewis |
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“Forgiveness
is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
- Mark Twain |
“You will
know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel
the power to wish them well.”
- Lewis
B. Smedes
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“Forgotten is forgiven.”
- F.
Scott Fitzgerald
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“Forgiveness is a gift”
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“Forgive your enemies,
but never forget their names.”
- John F. Kennedy |
“Forgiveness
is the final form of love.”
- Reinhold
Niebuhr
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“Man has two
great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.””
- Billy Graham
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“The
practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of
the world.”
- Marianne Williamson
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“Forgiveness
is a gift you give yourself.”
- Suzanne Somers
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“Without
forgiveness, there's no future.”
- Desmond Tutu
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“When you forgive,
you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.”
- Jon Krakauer |
“Not forgiving
is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
- Anne Lamott |
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“Forgiveness
in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
- Wm. Paul Young |
“Forgiveness
is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.”
- Wm. Paul Young |
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“I guess
forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get
there and get to stay.”
- Deb Caletti |
“The ability
to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.”
- Bryant H. McGill
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“Forgiveness
is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”
- George MacDonald
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“Love may
forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot
cease to will their removal.”
- C.S. Lewis |
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“Before we can
forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
- Emma Goldman |
“Forgiveness
means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”
- Anne Lamott |
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“Forgiveness
says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
- Desmond Tutu
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“Forgiveness
is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.”
- T. D. Jakes
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“The first
step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”
- Marianne Williamson
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“I can forgive
you for leaving, but not for coming back.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer |
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“We win by
tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.”
- Frederick William Robertson
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“Forgiveness
really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an
individual.”
- Jennifer O'Neill
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“Forgiveness
isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions
against you.”
- Jennifer O'Neill
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“I believe in
the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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“The forgiving
state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.”
- Catherine Ponder |
“You will
never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.”
- Max Lucado
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“I believe
forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.”
- Alan Ball
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“A broken
friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it
once was.”
- Stephen Richards |
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“A strong gives
forgiveness but weak gives permission.”
- Santosh Kalwar |
“Forgiveness is
the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”
- Hannah Arendt |
