Quotes About Understanding

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

The brave only know how to forgive.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

I can always forgive where I understand.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

Who understands much, forgives much.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.