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Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiving is divine. Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs, to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
~ Gautama Buddha
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
~ Mario Puzo
To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
~ Andy Rooney
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
~ Byron Katie
When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
~ Tyler Perry
Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.
~ Arthur Dobrin
Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
~ Emily Giffin
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
~ Alexander Pope
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
~ Alan Cohen
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.
~ Tracie Peterson
He who lives happiest has forgotten most
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.
~ Sri Chinmoy
To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.
~ Rita Zahara
It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
A smile can heal a thousand wounds.
~ Art Smith
Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.
~ Amy Poehler
Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki