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- The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision.…
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
- 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…
- You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing…
- Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As…
- ...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.
- If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the…
- With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really…
- We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
- I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of…
- God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I…
- Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people…
- I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it.…
- God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving…
- How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has…
- Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can.…
- Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we…
- Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your…
- When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our…
- When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with…
- Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick…
- Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on…
- Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we…
- Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way…
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- 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