Need Some Inspiring Quotes about Forgiveness?
Forgiveness
Here my favorite quotes about forgiveness ...
To understand all is to forgive all.
- Voltaire
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
- Kahlil Gibran (LP 7, way of love)
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.
- The Bhagavad-Gita
Enemies
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius (compare with monk and stream with woman)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Arthur James Balfour
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy
Holding onto grievances is a decision to suffer.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
- Henry Emerson Fosdick
Critical Tasks
Forgiveness is impossible in human consciousness but very possible and manageable in spiritual consciousness.
- Eric Butterworth
Challenges
I shall be an autocrat , that's my trade. And the good lord will forgive me, that's his.
- Catherine the Great
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
- (you know the Source)
