Understanding is not the same as forgiving

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding…

— Lewis B. Smedes

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

— Dale Carnegie

“Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

— Jill Scott

“Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.”

— Tim Fargo

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception…

— Richard Walters

“Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to challenge your…

— Shannon L. Alder

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Forgiving those who have betrayed and cheated with you don't help them; it helps you.

— Chanda Kaushik

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's extreme hard to forgive the betrayal of someone you trust and love.

— Noxolo Zulu

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”

— Simona Panova

Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.

— Gregory Maguire