Quotes About Forgiveness

He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Zarife de kendine göre Yedigey'in iyili?ini istemi? ve bu konuda vicdan?n?n sesine uymu?tu. Bunun için Zarife'yi suçlam?yor, ona k?zam?yordu. Zaten insan sevdi?ine k?zamazd? ki! Daha çok kendisini suçluyor, kendisini kusurlu buluyordu. Sevdi?i kad?n ac? çekece?ine kendisi ac? çeksindi. B?rak?p gitse bile onu hep sevgiyle anard?.

A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

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Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.

I forgave you a long time ago,' I say to Ram. 'Though I didn't know it until now. Because this is the most important aspect of love, whose other face is compassion: It isn't doled out, drop by drop. It doesn't measure who is worthy and who isn't. It is like the ocean. Unfathomable. Astonishing. Measureless.

The fates are cruel," Bheeshma whispered, "and they've been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault." "I'll still have to pay for them," Karna said. "Isn't that how karma works? Look at what happened to Pandu, who killed a sage by accident, thinking him to be a wild deer. He had to bear the consequences of it for the rest of his life.

Forgive me, Sister, I said silently, you who are the unsung heroine of this tale, the one who has the tougher role: to wait and to worry.

And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked. "Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?

The herbs and chants weren't working because of my anger towards Ram. In some dark part of my soul, I wanted him to suffer.

Truly love is the strongest intoxicant of them all, the drink of deepest oblivion. Else how could I have forgiven him so quickly for what he'd done? No. Love is the spade with which we bury, deep inside our being, the things that we cannot bear to remember, cannot bear anyone else to know. But some of them remain. And they rise to the surface when we least expect them.

The grandfather dropped his weapons and knelt before him. On his face was a look I could only interpret as hope. "And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked.

Let the past go. Be at ease. Allow the future to arrive at its own pace, unfurling its secrets when it will.

Surely, all his life, Bharat had loved his mother dearly. Surely he realized that what she'd done had been for his sake alone. But today when he spoke of her, there was only disgust in his voice. Could love, which I'd taken to be powerful and everlasting, be so frail as well? Could you pluck it out of your heart as easily as you'd pull a weed from a bed of flowers?

They receded into mist, leaving me with another lesson: once mistrust has wounded it mortally, love can't be fully healed again.

Every person is evolving, and evolution implies process, time and mistakes.6 Once a person realizes that everybody makes mistakes and that this is part of the natural process of spiritual evolution, forgiving others and also one's self becomes easy. Once there is forgiveness, inner healing and physical healing occur.

A disciple must learn to be patient, to understand, to be tolerant, to be compassionate, to internally forgive and to bless. Although the disciple has internally forgiven the offending person(s), it is still necessary, in some instances, to take actions that may be, to a certain extent severe, in order for the person to learn his lesson and not commit the same serious mistake again. It is also necessary to protect possible future victims.

Although Pranic Healing greatly improves the condition of the patient, the rate of healing would be much faster if the patient consciously exerts effort to forgive those who may have actually or imaginarily hurt him or her.

I used to feel sorry for them, or sad. Not so much any more. Now I wonder what they did, and I know what they did, and all I can think is how all that water is barely enough to cover it up.

I shall not weep for any of them, nor regret their fate, nor shake one feather in sympathy.