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Quotes About Compassion

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart
~ James Hilton
To be social is to be forgiving
~ Robert Frost
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
~ Jewel
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
~ Unknown
True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.
~ Unknown
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
To forgive is human, to forget divine. . .
~ James Grand
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Unknown
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
~ Seneca
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing
~ George Bernard Shaw
We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves
~ Joshua Loth Liebman
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships
~ Josh McDowell
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive
~ Alan Paton
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.
~ Unknown
My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.
~ Della Reese
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
~ Voltaire
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
~ Unknown
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
~ Jessamyn West
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
~ Herman Melville
Men that have much business must have much pardon
~ Proverb
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness.
~ William Shakespeare