Approval Quote by Mark Twain

What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval

— Mark Twain

What power has love but forgiveness?

— William Carlos Williams

“aggression, violence, compassion, empathy, sympathy, competition, cooperation, altruism, envy, schadenfreude, spite, forgiveness, reconciliation, revenge, reciprocity, and (why not?) love.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“In every instance, forgiveness morphs into a self-serving tool of manipulation we use to control other people. Inside our clouded minds, we convince ourselves…

— Chad Bird

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the…

— Susan Jeffers

“Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that many of…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts…

— Jacques Philippe

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

— William Carlos Williams

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our mind, our health, and our happiness. Forgive…

— Anonymous

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion…

— Howard Bloom

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the…

— Benjamin Franklin