Quotes About Forgiveness

Real friends can put up with your worst behavior and be exceptionally affectionate even when you are extremely irritable. They believe in you even when you stop believing in yourself. They accept you with all your flaws and love you just the way you are.

Just as we love ourselves despite the shortcomings we have, so should we love others despite the shortcomings they have.

My biggest regret is that I let days pass by, without telling you how much you meant to me. Giving up on you without even fighting is rougher that being rejected.

Forgiveness and love, cannot be earned, deserved, bought, sold, won, or forced. They are a gift and should never be taken for granted or expected. Only accepted.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty, and your purpose when you are confused...

Love is a chance. Hate is a curse. Forgiveness is a blessing. Trust is a gift.

Let ego die and let love live. Ego kills but love heals. Lets love, live and heal. Surely life deserves the best.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give what you don't have. You cannot forgive what you can't forget. But you can love even if you're not being loved back.

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

You can love someone and dislike them at the same time, but you will never dislike them enough to let them walk out of your life completely because you love them too much for them to leave.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

When you truly care for someone, their mistakes never change our feelings because it's the mind that gets angry but the heart still cares..

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than if hatred had not preceded it.

If you're at the end of your rope...untie the knot in your heart.

Don't let the sun go down on an unhealed heart.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

You say you'll never forget me, but the lies have piled up.

But it was not right that settlements were torched and destroyed when the inhabitants had nothing to do with the blinkered obsessions of some of my people.

Wenn ich heute an die Frau denke, die ich einmal war, die Frau mit dem kleinen Doppelkinn, die sich sehr bemühte, jünger auszusehen, als sie war, empfinde ich wenig Sympathie für sie. Ich möchte aber nicht zu hart über sie urteilen. Sie hatte ja nie eine Möglichkeit, ihr Leben bewußt zu gestalten.

Ich erinnerte mich an gewisse Tage meiner Kindheit ohne Trauer und Wehmut, ja selbst ohne Sympathie. Das kleine Mädchen von damals war tot, erwürgt und verscharrt von großen geschickten Händen. Es war nicht Schade darum, denn es hatte sich kaum gewehrt, und um Dinge und Menschen, die sich nicht wehren, braucht man nicht zu trauern.

Nie hab' ich die Wohltat der Beichte begriffen. Sie mag es für andere sein, und ich hoffe, daß sie es ist, aber die Mächte, denen ich unterstehe, vergessen und verzeihen nicht. Sie verstoßen endgültig das unbotmaßige Kind.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.