Forgiving Quotes - Page 19

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Children have taught me to always be forgiving.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

People who hold on to grudges, insist on being right, and try to change other's minds have a difficult time maintaining healthy, happy relationships. Surrendered people easily forgive. They are open to new ideas, and aren't attached to being "right." As a result, people love working and collaborating with them. Others seek them out as mediators and advisers. They are more laid back and relaxed than their rigid counterparts, which makes them highly valued by others.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

When women love, they forgive everything...

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.

I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

God forgive you, but I never can.

Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.