Quotes About Forgiveness

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It's a vicious cycle.

Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.