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Quotes About Forgiveness

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
~ Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.
~ Dick Gephardt
Hate doesn't last. Love does.
~ Agatha Christie
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
~ Agatha Christie
So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.
~ Alanis Morissette
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.
~ Alicia Keys
MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Love yourself. Love your soul and let go of the past. Past pain is keeping you in pain. You don't have to deteriorate.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I love you, Ella May and nothing will ever change that. You can push me away -run away – and I will still love you.
~ Jessica Sorensen
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
~ A. J. Jacobs
Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.
~ Allen Tate
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
~ C. S. Lewis
Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.
~ Dalai Lama
You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.
~ Daniel Handler
Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.
~ Darren Johnson
Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.
~ Eminem
There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.
~ Erma Bombeck
If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire.
~ George Carlin
You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
~ Helen Fisher
Love beyond the damage.
~ Henry Rollins