Quotes About Forgiveness

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Forgive me this digression that I stand Entranced awhile at Law's first beam, outbreak O' the business, when the Count's good angel bade "Put up thy sword, born enemy to the ear, "And let Law listen to thy difference!" And Law does listen and compose the strife, Settle the suit, how wisely and how well! On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault, Law bends a brow maternally severe, Implies the worth of perfect chastity, By fancying the flaw she cannot find.

'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ:Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

It wasn't your fault. You didn't do anything wrong, you were just a little kid.

we need to not confuse the intellectual with the emotional (forgiving someone intellectually does not make the energy of anger and pain disappear) - and to not kid ourselves that using the tools allows us to avoid the process.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human.

Then gently scan your brother man, still gentler sister woman, though they may gang a kennin wrang, to step aside is human

To err is human, to purr is feline.