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Why and How to Forgive......

Forgiveness is a blessing and we should adopt the habit to forgive others. Our team gathered here some of quotes for you to see what these successful people say about forgiveness. 


Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.


Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi


Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee


Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde


Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain


When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer


He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller


Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi


Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More


Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr


When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips


A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Robert Fripp


Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald


You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes


I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher


To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope


People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby


Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky


How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes


Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold


Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine


Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Suzanne Somers


Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward


To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes


Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich


One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake


Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Alice Duer Miller


Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham


There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill



It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes


Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason Cooley


Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown


When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac


The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson


Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen


Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt


Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu


There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings


Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius


Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul


The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde


How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus


If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins


It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West


Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Euripides


I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
Chaim Herzog


The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant H. McGill


My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
Janine Turner


Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald


The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard


To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost


To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase


It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper


It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner


It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller


I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
Catherine the Great


All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama



Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden


Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov


If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela


When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky


Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
Jessica Lange


Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
Bell Hooks


Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams


Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom


Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky


I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
Abdul Qadeer Khan


One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
Ian Mcewan


'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben


I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
Carlos Santana


The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon Wiesenthal


Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Jewel


The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson



Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
Kevyn Aucoin


I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
Mark Wahlberg


Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
Dar Williams


As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
Joan Baez


Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
Jennifer O'Neill


I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
John Rowland


My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Janine Turner


I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
Kristin Chenoweth


Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Chesnut


On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
Edward Albert


China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
Virginia Foxx


I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.
Julian Clary


I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
William P. Leahy


I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
Jayson Blair


Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli


I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.
Scott Stapp


These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.
Norm Dicks


I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
Lee Tergesen


Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
Jennifer O'Neill



I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
William Brewster


And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
John Rowland


There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti


One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine


I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Jean-Francois Cope


The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
Robert Rainy


I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
Andrea Thompson


When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
Craig T. Nelson


I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!
Susan Smith

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