Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.
The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister! How terrible I was! How right and wonderful you were! Please forgive me! Let's hug and love each other from now until the rest of eternity!" This is not the kind of reconciliation I write about; I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.
No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!
Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up.
To understand all is to forgive all.
Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
God forgives us. . . . Who am I not to forgive?
Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.
The more people know, the more they forgive.
Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.
If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
To forgive does not mean to forget.
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!