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Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life

When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

The weak can never forgive.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

If given a really great chance, I'm going to put it away every single time.

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.