Forgiveness Quotes

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

Forgive others often yourself never.

The difficulties hardships and trials of life the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

You will never be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Love’s voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart

War will not be able to bring peace—only love and forgiveness can do that.

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

Enjoy the successes that you have and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.

Forgiveness is brave, sets us free from darkness, and allows light to shine the sweet fragrance of life into our souls

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you’re setting free is yourself.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.

He who limps still walks.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.

Even though we can't have all we want we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

God’s forgiveness is greater than the devil’s hate.

Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.

Why do you want to fight and win when you were born to understand and forgive? When you forgive, you always win.

Life may be hard but it's also wonderful.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.