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Forgiving Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.
- True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those…
- To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
- To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.
- Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not…
- Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the…
- To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
More Forgiving Quotes
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for… — Honore de Balzac
- One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. — Bernard Baruch
- Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. — Scott Adams
- I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — William Blake
- I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for. — Mary J. Blige
- Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. — Les Brown
- Forgive those who have hurt you. — Les Brown
- Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — Jean de la Bruyere