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    Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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    Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

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    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.

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    During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.

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

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    Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

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    Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

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    Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

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    Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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    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.

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    Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

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    Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

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    Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

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    Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

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    For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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    Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

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    Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

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    Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.

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    Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

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    Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

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    Forgiveness is better than revenge.

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    Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

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    Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

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    Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

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    Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

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    Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

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    Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

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    Forgiveness is God's command.

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    Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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    Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

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    Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

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    Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.

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    Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

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    Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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    Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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    Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

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    Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

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    Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. 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. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.