Quotes About Forgiveness

I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.

I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it right in the first half, people will forgive you, and then you can move on with the story.

I don't resent anything.

The only person you resent is yourself.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

In my experience, it's quite an empowering thing to forgive someone because you take control and take ownership of that feeling, of that resentment, and that power that they have taken from you, and in some way, you end up being able to turn it around.

The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I had a lot of resentment and a lot to process. Through revision is where a lot of learning happened and a lot of forgiveness happened.

If you are filled with resentment, try letting that feeling come and then let that feeling go.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

I don't live with judgement or resentment, I don't have time for it.

Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate.

I just don't harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone - I'm too busy.

I always tell myself that nothing ever is worth holding onto if it hurt you, because the longer you hold onto anger and resentment, the longer you feed it and keep it alive.

Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

I know a lot of people who've lost their siblings and blame themselves.

I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don't remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

You think of a criminal, and you already judge them for the crime, and you don't really see the human side of them. We all have our sides that we're not proud about.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.