FORGIVENESS QUOTES

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The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

STEVE MARABOLI
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Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

MAYA ANGELOU

Facebook post, Nov. 22, 2013


Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

GITA BELLIN

The Flourishing Mind

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People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale


It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Jerusalem


Forgiveness is like the gentle zephyrs wafting the dew of heaven over field, farm and woodland, rendering the landscape beautiful to behold.

C.L.W.

"Forgiveness", The Juvenile Instructor, Volume 25


If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

JESUS

Luke 17:3


Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

DESMOND TUTU

attributed, Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul


I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.

DON HENLEY

"The Heart of the Matter"


I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

KHALED HOSSEINI

The Kite Runner


It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

GRACE HOPPER

interview, "Only the Limits of Our Imagination", Chips Ahoy, July 1986


Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

ANNE LAMOTT

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year


Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Forgiveness is like catching a little fish. You reel it in, and you make a decision to keep it or let it go. With the little ones, you take the hook out of its mouth and throw it back in. The scar from the hook doesn't go away and the fish ought to remember not to repeat the mistake. But the fish is back in the creek and free to do whatever fish do. The purpose of forgiveness is freedom, like being thrown back into the creek.

DAVID RYDER

The Hound of Tooty River


Forgiveness is like a magic slate -- it gives us a fresh start.

ROBERT C. KAUSEN

We've Got to Start Meeting Like This!


I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

RAY BRADBURY

"Sci-fi Legend Ray Bradbury on God, Monsters and Angels", CNN: Living, August 2, 2010


Unpacking forgiveness is like relocating a family. While you may move on a particular day, unpacking takes a lot longer. It's a process. Boxes remain packed for months, years even.

CHRIS BRAUNS

Unpacking Forgiveness


There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living