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Quotes About Forgive

It's been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation—rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Someone is digging your grave right now. Someone is drawing a bath to wash you clean, he said, so think of the wind, so happy, so warm. It's a fairy tale, the story underneath the story, sliding down the polished halls, lightning here and gone. We make these ridiculous idols so we can to what's behind them, but what happens after we get up the ladder? Do we simply stare at what's horrible and forgive it?
~ Richard Siken
The hurt affects your ability to move forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.
~ Deb Caletti
Dare to believe. Dare to live. Dare to act. Dare to fact. Dare to sail. Dare to fail. Dare to give. Dare to forgive.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
The secret to happiness, peace, and self-confidence is to forgive yourself and forgive others.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
To be happy, you have to love and forgive.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Sometimes it's not at all possible to forgive and forget, when evil strikes hard, and demands your action. Ask those innumerable innocent victims of rape, incest, sexual violence, and domestic abuse; and they will tell you that forgive and forget is easy to say, but impossible to do.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.
~ Johnny Hunt
You can't forget the past.
~ Jen Calonita
Before I die I want to __________.
~ Jennifer Niven
No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.
~ Emily Giffin
Let go of the past. We must only begin.
~ Epictetus
To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor's kitchen was a huge letdown. I won't forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.
~ Ram Gopal Varma
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
~ Robert Jordan
Don't trust. Trust is death. Kill him. Kill them all. Oh, to die and be done, done with it all, sleep without dreams, dreams of Ilyena, forgive me, Ilyena, no forgiveness, only death, deserve to die. . . . Rand
~ Robert Jordan
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
~ Mark Twain
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
~ Alan Cohen
Give love and forget that you gave it.
~ Sun Myung Moon
Please forgive me, gentlemen,' the alchemist said, acknowledging the gesture, 'but I never permit myself any stimulants. My health isn't what it was. I've been forced to give up many… pleasures.' 'Not even a sip?' 'It's a principle,' Regis explained calmly. 'I never break any principles once I've adopted them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I will always forgive a technical error, but I will never forgive the wrong attitude.
~ Filippo Inzaghi
The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves," Buffett says. "But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.
~ Robert G. Hagstrom
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
~ Robert Jordan
I have no doubt at all the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my literary sins -- The other kind don't matter.
~ Robert W. Service