Quotes About Forgiveness

work toward curing yourself of the need to blame. Move beyond thinking about fault and blame.

For people with the growth mindset, the number one goal was forgiveness. As one woman said: "I'm no saint, but I knew for my own peace of mind that I had to forgive and forget. He hurt me but I had a whole life waiting for me and I'll be damned if I was going to live it in the past. One day I just said, 'Good luck to him and good luck to me.'

All of us can carry this understanding into our private lives: Something we did can be separated from who we are and who we want to be. Our past selves need not be a blueprint for our future selves. The road to redemption starts with the understanding that who we are includes what we have done but also transcends it, and the vehicle for transcending it is self-compassion.

Understanding without vengeance, reparation without retaliation, are possible only if we are willing to stop justifying our own position.

False memories allow people to forgive themselves and justify their mistakes, but sometimes at a high price: an inability to take responsibility for their lives.

Successful partners extend to each other the same self-forgiving ways of thinking we extend to ourselves: They forgive each other's missteps as being due to the situation but give each other credit for the thoughtful and loving things they do. If one partner does something thoughtless or is in a crabby mood, the other tends to write it off as a result of events that aren't the partner's fault:

Peres took a third course. "When a friend makes a mistake," he said, "the friend remains a friend, and the mistake remains a mistake.

Loving someone doesn't mean that you only care for them when you feel like it. It means that you forgive them when they mess up.

I hope he loves you as I should have.

It's funny how things don't matter any more when it's too late.

Infidelity doesn't have to be the most devastating that can happen in a marriage.

This is our task: be serene at all times, do not be vengeful, nor scorn your enemy; speak truthfully, befriend the virtuous, be equable in the face of disaster. Be aware that everything must pass, just as clouds arise, drift, and disperse, so do not seek to cling to anything.

The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened.

Love is patient, love is kind.

You did all those awful things, but you also fell in love with a person who can forgive you.

She says nothing. You say nothing. You know you made a mistake and you are better than this, smarter than this, and I now that being a mother is the hardest job in the world--RIP Love quit too--but the Meerkat didn't need that right now and you're about to apologize--I see it in your eyes--but she throws a book at you.

you get older, you realize that you don't really hate anyone, even your shitty parents, because everyone's just doing the best they can.

Who wants to spend their precious life hating?

It's the little things that seal the cracks in your heart.

When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

But I must forgive him. Why? Because we are told to love our enemies. Besides, until I forgive him, (said Mordecai, tapping his black-robed stomach), I carry him here, within me. And that is a terrible thing.

Maybe love didn't die even when a person did, but that didn't mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart.

You could love many people in your life. Maybe love didn't die even when a person did, but that didn't mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart.

I scarcely noticed the time passing. Miss Cross was kind enough to entertain me in the meantime." Papa chuckled. "I cannot fault you for forgetting me, then. She's far better company than I!" Hastings gave Eliza a warm glance. "I cannot disagree.