Forgiveness Quotes

In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Just remember that forgiveness is so much easier than regret.

Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

Forgiveness works the miracle of change.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

A wise man once said: Forgive and forget its a better choice in life.

To err is human to forgive divine.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.

How many things there are which I do not want.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil.

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my furyDo I take part.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.

Oh, miss Haversham said I, there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.

To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!

My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.

In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.

I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.