I leave you the best forgiveness phrases from great authors such as Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, John F. Kennedy, Alexander Pope, Martin Luther King, William Arthur Ward and many more.
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-The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-Mahatma Gandhi.
-To err is human, to forgive is divine.-Alexander Pope.
-When you have the opportunity to forgive, think about all that you will gain by doing so and you will forget all that you have lost.-Saim A. Cheeda.
-Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person who grants it as of the person who receives it.-Justin Cronin.
-To forgive is to free a prisoner and discover that the prisoner was yourself.-Lewis B. Smedes.
-Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.-Cherie Carter-Scott.
-Nothing liberates as much as forgiving. Nothing renews so much as forgetting.-Ray A. Davis.
-Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.-Mike Norton.
37-Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can work regardless of the temperature of the heart.-Corrie ten Boom.
-True forgiveness comes when you can say: "Thank you for that experience." - Oprah Winfrey.
-Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet casts on the heel of the one who has crushed it. -Mark Twain.
-Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.-John F. Kennedy.
- Forgiveness has nothing to do with acquitting a criminal of his crime. It has to do with relieving the burden of being a victim, letting go of the pain and transforming from victim to survivor.-CR Strahan.
-It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our mistakes and move on.-Steve Maraboli.
-To forgive means to forgive the unforgivable.-GK Chesterton.
-The fools do not forgive or forget; the naive forgives and forgets; The wise forgive, but do not forget.-Thomas Szasz.
-A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.-William Arthur Ward.
-When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.-Edward M. Hallowell.
-Forgiveness, in no way requires you to trust the one you forgive.-Wm. Paul Young.
-Forgiveness must be immediate, regardless of whether a person asks for it or not. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.-Rick Warren.
-The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.-Marianne Williamson.
-Forgiveness is not forgetting, simply denying your pain the right to control your life.-Corallie Buchanan.
-You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, every day.-C. JoyBell C.
- Always forgive, but never forget. Otherwise, you will be a prisoner of your own hatred and condemned to repeat your mistakes forever.-Wil Zeus.
-We do not forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it.-Bree Despain.
-Inner peace can only be achieved when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, it is the means to correct our erroneous perceptions.-Gerald G. Jampolsky.
-A friendship broken and repaired through forgiveness can be even stronger than it was.-Stephen Richards.
-Sorry is giving up hope that the past could have been different.-Oprah Winfrey.
-Each time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you arrive and touch a heart or a life, the world changes.-Wm. Paul Young.
-Forgiveness is the key that opens the prison of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.-Corrie ten Boom.
-Forgiveness does not happen once and for all. It is not an event, it is a process.-Barry Lyga.
-Before we can forgive each other, we have to understand each other. -Emma Goldman
-Forgiveness does not erase the bitter past. A cured memory is not an erased memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way of remembering. We transform the memory of our past into a hope for our future.-Lewis B. Smedes.
-Sometimes what you need the most is to be forgiven.-Jennifer McMahon
35-Forgiveness is the greatest gift of God.-Dan Brown.
-A mistake made with the good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.-Linda Sue Park.
-Forgiveness is not a final decision, it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination and persistence.-Corallie Buchanan-
-You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.-Sonia Rumzi-
-There is hope in forgiveness.-John Piper.
-Forgiveness is the final form of love.-Reinhold Niebuhr.
-It's not just people we need to forgive. We also have to forgive ourselves. For all the things we did not do, for all the things we should have done.-Mitch Albom.
-Sincere forgiveness is not colored with expectations that the other person will apologize or change. Don't worry if they finally understand you. Love them and set them free.-Sara Paddison.
35-Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.-Hannah Arendt.
- Forgiveness is a funny thing. Warms the heart and cools the sting.-William Arthur Ward.
-Forgiveness is the opportunity that we give each other.-Bet Kephart.
-You can always forgive when you understand.-Jude Morgan.
-The problem with forgiveness is that some people do not want to be forgiven.-Graham Joyce.
-Forgiveness is the economy of the heart, saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.-Hannah More.
-Forgiving is wisdom, forgetting is genius.-Joyce Cary.
-Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against the truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.-Glenn Beck.
-Forgiveness without understanding is like faith without proof.-Jessica Francis Kane.
-Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.-Donna Goddard.
-The last way to forgive is to understand that there is nothing to forgive.-Roy Bennett.
-If you wait, sorry, sorry.-Kristen Crockett.
-The practice of forgiveness is very similar to the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persevere to be good.-Katerina Stoykova Klemer.
42-Forgiveness means letting go of the past.-Gerald G. Jampolsky.
-Learning to forgive can be the most difficult of human acts, and the closest thing to divinity.-Justin Cronin.
-Sometimes people need to know that they could be forgiven for having the strength to change.-J. Leigh Bralick.
37-Forgiveness is just another word for freedom.-Julie Lessman.
-Forgiveness requires intelligence, discipline, imagination and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something that athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.-Edward M. Hallowell.
35-Forgiveness is the key to the shackles of the heart.-Richard Paul Evans.
-Forgiveness is a promise, not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sins against them.-Brett.
-Forgiveness is not an emotion, it is a decision.-Randall Worley
-Forgiveness can be seen as love, but love does not always guarantee forgiveness.-Gisclerc Morisset
32-Forgiveness cannot be earned with useless tears or alms to the Church.-José Rizal.
-Sometimes a person needs to hear that he has been forgiven so that he can begin to forgive himself.-Rachel Gibson.
-Learn to forgive others so that you can free yourself from being a captive of the negative thoughts that surround you.-Stephen Richards.
-Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind. -Muhaya Haji Mohamad.
-Forgiveness must come naturally.-Zarina Bibi.
45-Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have repercussions forever.-Craig D. Lounsbrough.
-Being a Christian means forgiving the unforgivable, because God forgave the unforgivable in us.-CS Lewis.
-Anyone knows that men and women think differently, but the most remarkable thing is that men forget but do not forgive, and women forgive but do not forget.-Robert Jordan.
28-I could easily forgive your pride, if it had not affected mine.-Jane Austen.
-I believe that if God forgives us then we must forgive ourselves. If not, we would be putting ourselves on a much higher pedestal than Him.-CS Lewis.
-When you forgive, you love. And when you love, the light of God shines on you.-Jon Krakauer.
-Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.-Anne Lamott.
-Acceptance, tolerance and forgiveness are lessons that alter our lives.-Jessica Lange
-Forgive is not forget. To forgive is to let go of the other person's neck.-William Paul Young.
-It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.-William Blake.
-Mistakes are your school of learning, therefore forgiveness is your best teacher in this school.-Stephen Richards.
-What is the meaning of being able to forgive if, deep within you, you have to admit that you are not capable of forgetting?.- Jodi Picoult.
-I suppose that forgiveness, like happiness, is not a final destination. You will not get there one day and you will stay.-Deb Caletti.
- Forgiveness is very easy. I can choose to forget, but not to forgive. I prefer to take revenge.-Karl Lagerfeld.
-Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is redemption and there is forgiveness. That's all, but that's enough.-Ted Chiang.
-People would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God had said "you have the option to die or forgive," many people would have chosen a coffin.-Sue Monk Kidd.
-If you deny someone an apology in this life, you will end up remembering it later when it is your turn to ask for forgiveness.-Toba Beta.
-I can forgive you for leaving, but I can not do it for having returned.-Jonathan Safran Foer.
-Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else, it is something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to be tolerant, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad when you are hurt.-Jim Beaver.
-Even being buried under fear, disappointment, anger and pride, I could find in my heart the strength to forgive.-Emily Giffin.
-There is a very tough law. When someone hurts us, we will not recover unless we forgive.-Alan Paton.
-When they hurt us, we cannot heal until we forgive.-Nelson Mandela.
-Life is short. The only person who gets hurt by staying upset is yourself. Forgive everyone, including yourself.-Tom Giaquinto.
-We learn the lessons, we get hurt and we want revenge. Then we realize that actually forgiving someone is the best revenge.-Madonna.
-It is forgiven that you are happy and that you are successful only if you promise to share those feelings.-Albert Camus.
-You will never forgive someone as much as God forgave you.-Max Lucado.
-You will know that you began to forgive when you think of others and feel the need to wish them well.-Lewis B. Smedes.
-Forgive others, not because they deserve it, but because you deserve peace.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
-We live because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.-Gregory David Roberts.
-Don't wait to want to forgive to do it, you'll never get to that point. Once someone is forgiven, feelings need time to heal.-Neil T. Anderson.
-Currently, we can forgive because God rose from the dead. His resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure any evil.-Jacques Phillippe.
-Forgiving someone is not only about doing good to the other person, it is also done to heal the wound in your heart.-Nouman Ali Khan.
-Mistakes are forgivable if we have the courage to admit it.-Bruce Lee.
-Life is too short not to forgive those who hurt us. I trust that you will do the right thing. The right thing for your own heart, because forgiveness will set you free.-Cheryl Kaye Tardif.
-Humanity must forgive “humanity”, since only in that way will we be human.-Ilyas Kassam.
-Society needs to know when to forgive but it must also know when to punish.-Kirtida Gautam.
-Forgiveness is the gift that is not given to others. Rather, you give yourself so that you can finally be free.-Shannon L. Alder.
-I like when things are clear and concise. You can always be forgiven but you must follow the rules.-Rummer Godden.
-Apparently, in the modern world we lost the ability to forgive others.-Stewart Stafford.
-If you cannot be trusted in matters of love, you cannot be trusted in the rest. Some things cannot be forgiven.-Mary A. Pearson.
-Now I realize that forgiveness is not a transaction. It is not an exchange. Forgiveness has nothing to do with the past.-Mark Sakamoto.
-When I forgive I do it because I care, not because it is the right thing to do.-Amanda J. Vega.
-Your mind will dance in peace and with joy when you stop complaining and begin to forgive.-Debasish Mridha.
-Let's sit in a place of love and forgiveness instead of one full of hatred and revenge.-Carol CC Miller.
-When anger and bitterness overwhelm your goodness, you can neither apologize nor forgive others.-Balroop Singh.
-Some enemies do not deserve to be forgiven, even if they have been forgiven a million times.-Fahad Basheer.
45-Strong relationships are built with a lot of love, patience, understanding and forgiveness.-Latika Teotia.
-Forgiving is the best way to take power away from your enemies.-Gift Gugu Mona.
-There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness if there is no love.-Bryan H. McGill.
24-We chain ourselves to those whom we do not forgive.-Richard Paul Evans.
-We all seek forgiveness from someone else.-Obie Williams.
-Forgiveness will give you wisdom. Anger will make you immature.-Anthony T. Hincks.