Quotes About Forgiveness

Don't be angry any longer! Cancer is eating away my body, but anger will eat away your soul. Don't let it destroy your chance for happiness.

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Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed. She'd heard that a person should count herself blessed to have even one true friend in her life.

Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.

But all through life, it seems, we have to learn and relearn the lesson of loving people unconditionally, no matter what.

It is just a pity, he added, that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson.

You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. He

I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.

If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.

Sentía que había traicionado a un hombre que había sido tan bueno conmigo, un hombre en el que había llegado a ver un amigo.

The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to? How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it? He who understands and forgives -- where would he find a motive to act? Where would he not?

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked.

Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn't telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.

When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.

By letting go of misguided beliefs, love and compassion can break through.

Things might have been a lot worse. Don't you worry about it overmuch. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.

We should treat with indulgence every human folly, failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices.