Forgive Quotes
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How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.
Andrew Wight
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
Seneca the Younger
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
Mikhail Lermontov
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn’t bear it, I couldn’t forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.
Elena Ferrante
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People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.
Richard Simmons
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You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.
Edith Hahn Beer
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We can get over the wrongs we do, but we cannot forgive ourselves for the wrongs done to us, for our own helplessness.
Ekaterina Sedia
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You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
Rudyard Kipling
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If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
William Shakespeare