Quotes About Empathy

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

Cats know not how to pardon.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Know all and you will pardon all.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.