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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To err is human, to forgive supine.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

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

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

We forgive but not forgotten

We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.