Forgiving Quotes
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The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
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In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...
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Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
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English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.
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It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.
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And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.
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My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.
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Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.
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Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.
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Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.
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If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
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The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.
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We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.
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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them
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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.
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Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.
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You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.
