Quotes About Peace

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.