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Quotes About Forgiveness

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
~ Paulo Coelho
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.
~ Desmond Tutu
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice
~ Nelson Mandela
Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.
~ David D. Burns
Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
~ Marianne Williamson
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
~ Boris Yeltsin
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
You can't let the past ruin your future.
~ Maria V. Snyder
When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
~ Tyler Perry
I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.
~ D. J. MacHale
One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.
~ Max Gallo
No future without forgiveness.
~ Desmond Tutu
The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
~ Marianne Williamson
After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.
~ Leo Buscaglia
One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.
~ Neal Shusterman
You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.
~ Rob Brezsny
I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
~ Kim Campbell
I believe in a non-killing future.
~ Mairead Corrigan
Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.
~ Maria V. Snyder
By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
~ Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew.
~ Unknown
The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?
~ Unknown