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A man must learn to forgive himself.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

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.

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.

But with morning cool repentance came.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

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.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.