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Quotes About Forgiveness

Behave pridefully before no one, show anger to no one, scold no one, restrict no one, resent no one, badmouth no one, hate no one, sadden no one, criticize no one, hurt no one, discriminate against no one, betray no one, be jealous of no one, forgive everyone—this is how we should always hope to be.
~ Masami Saionji
forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Take a moment to completely understand that yesterday is over, last year is over, the last minute is over - the past is the past and cannot change.
~ Matt Morris
Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
~ Matthew Kelly
Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.
~ Matthew Kelly
Tell her that I miss her. And that I'm sorry. You don't even know what you're sorry for. Well, yeah, but that doesn't matter. At this point, I'll be sorry for whatever she wants me to be sorry for.
~ Matthew Norman
A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.
~ Matthew Reilly
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at.
~ Matthew Scully
That is the whole idea of mercy, after all, that it is entirely discretionary, entirely undeserved.... There is no such thing as a right to mercy, not for the animals and not even for us.
~ Matthew Scully
That is the whole idea o mercy, after all, that it is entirely discretionary, entirely undeserved.... There is no such thing as a right to mercy, not for the animals and not even for us.
~ Matthew Scully
Tibetan poet Shabkar said: "One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles.
~ Matthieu Ricard
It was also helpful that the hotel's owner tended to turn a blind eye to room sharing. A room filled with too many guests was better than one with no guests at all.)
~ Maureen Johnson
Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.
~ Maureen Johnson
I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.
~ Ayn Rand
You can't be hard on a man who needs you, it will prey on your conscience for the rest of your life." "It won't." "You've got to be kind, Henry." "I'm not." "You've got to have some pity." "I haven't." "A good man knows how to forgive." "I don't." "You wouldn't want me to think that you're selfish." "I am.
~ Ayn Rand
Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.
~ Ayn Rand
The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.
~ Ayn Rand
I'd rather be kind than right.
~ Ayn Rand
You've got to be kind..." "I'm not." "You've got to have some pity." "I haven't." "A good man knows how to forgive." "I don't." "You wouldn't want me to think that you're selfish." "I am.
~ Ayn Rand
Feeling quiet and empty, he told himself that he would be all right tomorrow. He would forgive himself the weakness of this night, it was like the tears one is permitted at a funeral, and then one learns how to live with an open wound or with a crippled factory.
~ Ayn Rand
This was not the time for his old doubts. He felt that he could forgive anything to anyone, because happiness was the greatest agent of purification. He felt certain that every living being wished him well tonight
~ Ayn Rand
Where once I'd felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.
~ Barack Obama
We have our own ways, our own memories, and what has happened between all of us is hard to undo.
~ Barack Obama