Quotes About Forgiveness

Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

Now that I've lost you it kills me to say I tried to hold on as you slowly slipped away I'm losing the fight I've treated you so wrong Now let me make it right

Chameleon on being crowned shamelessly said that he would jointly work with those animals, whom he used to say beast and rebuke earlier, for the peace and progress of the jungle.

The trap of resentment. It is probably the worst mental prison in the world. It is the inability to let go of anger and the perceived or real injustices we suffer. Some people let one or two, or maybe ten unpleasant experiences poison the rest of their lives. They let their anger ferment and rot their personality. They end up seeing themselves as victims of their parents, teachers, their peers and preachers.

Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe.

I said, "Allah wouldn't test us on whether we condemn somebody who became pregnant outside of marriage; He would test us on our hospitality and charity.

The missing link can only come through the practice of loving-kindness toward ourselves, in spite of everything we know about ourselves. Only then, in fact, will we be able to love others, without criticism or judgment.

The one who causes anger is excused, one who gets is accused.

Opposition without love leads to violence; loving the wrong-doer without opposing the evil in him is folly and leads to misery.

I learned another thing from the hurt my cousin gave me - never to give that kind of hurt to anyone else. My revenge was to change a bad feeling into a good one. If I'm working with you and I sense you're feeling a little insecure, I try to make you feel great. That's how I get rid of my old hurt. If I don't do that, my hurt grows and makes me mean and vengeful. But if hurt can change to kindness - that's something Mama showed me - the world becomes a little less cruel.

I want to die." May shook her head. "Let me get a knife." "I've made a horrible mess of things." "Haven't we all? If you don't want your supper burned, die quietly while I get back to the kitchen.

Hud? Back here? Oh, man, what a birthday present," Hilde said, giving her another hug. "I'm so sorry, sweetie. I can imagine what seeing him again did to you." "I still want to kill him," Dana whispered. "Not on your birthday." Hilde frowned.

I'm sorry about a lot of things. Being with you isn't one of them.

If he'd forgotten that shy twelve-year-old whose heart he'd broken, well, she'd be happy to remind him.

There is a biblical phrase "an eye for an eye," a philosophy of revenge, not justice. But Mahatma Ghandi warned that in a world ruled by an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind.

Relationships are maintained only when small mistakes are ignored and people are respected more than egos.

What about your Your 10,000 promises? That you gave to me (to me, babe) Your 10,000 promises That you promised me You say I'll take you back But I close the door 'Cause I don't want 10,000 more

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

In the rare cases where I've had to cut a company loose, I just tell them why and wish them luck and hope they learn something from it. I don't spend more mental energy on it than I have to, and I try very hard not to hold a grudge or try to negatively affect them either. It's just done for me.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.