Given Quotes - Page 4

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.