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Quotes About Forgiveness

I love everybody and pity everybody.
~ Leo Tolstoy
This foolish smile he could not forgive himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Pierre's madness simply meant that he didn't wait, as in days gone by, for people to show personal qualities, what he might call virtues, before loving them. With his heart overflowing with love he loved people for no reason at all, and then had no trouble discovering many a sound reason that made them worth loving.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is dreadful that one cannot tear our the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is dreadful that one cannot tear the past out by the roots.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every turn of her lips, her eyes, her hand as she said it! There was entreaty for forgiveness, and trust in him and tenderness--soft, timid tenderness--and promise and hope and love for him, which he could not but believe in and which choked him with happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the cruellest words a coarse man could say, he said to her in her imagination, and she could not forgive him for them, as if he had actually said them to her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Praštati ne zna?i samo re?i: praštam, nego iš?upati iz srca srdnju, zlo ose?anje prema onom ko nas je uvredio. A da to u?inimo, treba samo da se setimo svojih greha; a kad se njih setimo, zacelo ?emo na?i u sebi još gorih stvari nego što su one zbog kojih se srdimo.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also,
~ Leo Tolstoy
I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?'—said her charming, pathetic, dead face.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Tell your wife that I love her as before, and if she cannot forgive me my situation, I wish her never to forgive me. In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Vengeance is mine. I will repay.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The law of God is not to return evil for evil; indeed, if you try in this way to stamp out wickedness it will come upon you all the stronger. It is not difficult for you to kill the man, but his blood will surely stain your own soul. You may think you have killed a bad man--that you have gotten rid of evil--but you will soon find out that the seeds of still greater wickedness have been planted within you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Y lo más terrible es que tengo la culpa de todo y sin embargo no soy culpable. En eso consiste mi tragedia
~ Leo Tolstoy
for them when I die." He wished to say this but had not the strength to utter it. "Besides, why speak? I must act," he thought. with a look at his wife he indicated his son and said: "Take him away … sorry for him … sorry for you too … " He tried to add, "Forgive me,
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you can forgive me, forgive me,' said her eyes, 'I am so happy.' 'I hate them all, and you, and myself,' his eyes responded.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round, angry and eager to avenge himself, to look for his antagonist, and finds that it is he himself who has accidentally struck himself, that there is no one to be angry with, and that he must put up with and try to soothe the pain.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from the pain she had caused.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It all lies in the fact that men think there are circumstances in which one may deal with human beings without love; and there are no such circumstances.
~ Leo Tolstoy