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Quotes About Forgiveness

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
~ Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
~ Socrates
Those who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.
~ Socrates
A friend can turn into an enemy, and so an enemy can turn into a friend.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes . . .
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Do you think God will ever forgive me for my sins?" I would say: "Forgiveness already exists in the nature of God; it is already there. God has already forgiven you, for God is forgiveness itself. 'To err is human, and to forgive divine.' But can you truly forgive yourself? That's the real question.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Time and time again, I have seen people whose hearts have been hardened by self-hatred and guilt find, through a simple act of asking for pardon, unsuspected strength and peace.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Through your blessing, grace, and guidance, through the power of the light that streams from you: May all my negative karma, destructive emotions, obscurations, and blockages be purified and removed, May I know myself forgiven for all the harm I may have thought and done, May I accomplish this profound practice of phowa, and die a good and peaceful death, And through the triumph of my death, may I be able to benefit all other beings, living or dead.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
childhood haunts
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.
~ Soheir Khashoggi
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meek ness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance, when the master in his turn will cry in for mercy.
~ Solomon Northup
dim perception of a Saviour who had died even for such as her.
~ Solomon Northup
Be warned things done In the dark cant stay blank forever, cause when the light comes on, you will be sorry!!!
~ Somy blaq
The only thing that brought me peace was to fully feel my human experience and accept that no matter what had transpired, in this or any life, underneath it all people do what they think is right or necessary at the time, and because of that, we are all both victims and perpetrators. We are all wounded, and wound one another because of it.
~ Sonia Choquette
However, he should not permit himself to dwell on past
~ Sophia Mason
He wondered how many new starts a person was entitled to, how many times one could say it was the other person's fault and truly believe it.
~ Sophie Hannah
If you will allow Poirot to offer you a piece of wise advice: the pursuit of revenge is rarely a good idea.
~ Sophie Hannah
Fazemos tanto mal a nós e aos outros quando nos ofendemos quanto ao ofendermos.
~ Sophie Hannah
There is a difference, Peter, between an unforgivable act and a person of unforgivable character.
~ Sophie Hannah
You can't move forward with your life if you're constantly looking over your shoulder—for
~ Sophie Hayes
Life is full of regrets. They'll cripple you if you let them.
~ Sophie Jordan
The heart that truly loves never forgets.
~ Sophie Jordan
Things happen. Things that you think you'll never get over. But you do. You move on. It gets better with time. You forget. Forgive. Whatever. Life goes on and you go on with it.
~ Sophie Jordan
We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.
~ Sophie Jordan