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Quotes About Forgiveness

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
~ Ja Rule
I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.
~ Wayne Dyer
If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
~ Tyler Perry
Let Allah will deal with the people who wronged you in this life, because too much hate will eventually consume you to
~ Boonaa Mohammed
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
~ Desmond Tutu
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
~ Eknath Easwaran
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
~ Merle Shain
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
~ Henry Miller
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
~ Christian D. Larson
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
~ Joan Lunden
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
~ Otto von Bismarck
You cant spend your life apologizing.
~ Jude Law
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.
~ Lloyd D. Newell
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
~ Jeff Ross
If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.
~ Confucius
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
~ Lance Morrow