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Quotes About Understanding

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
~ Seneca the Younger
But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.
~ Heather Gudenkauf
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
~ Don King
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
~ P. D. James
the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.
~ P. D. James
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.
~ David Small
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
~ Veronica Roth
Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
~ Joss Whedon
If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.
~ William J. Clinton
There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
~ Myrtle Reed
She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
~ Whitney Otto
The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
~ Wally Lamb
The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.
~ John Armstrong
Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.
~ Deepak Chopra
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.
~ Honore de Balzac
There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.
~ Unknown
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need itwe need it.
~ Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?
~ Unknown
Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
~ William Paul Young, The Shack
We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.
~ Thomas Fitzosborne