(660 quotes found)
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
Lewis B. Smedes
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
William Arthur Ward
“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation”
Roberto Assagioli
“Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.”
Christina Baldwin
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.”
Dolores Huerta
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
Jessamyn West
“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
“You are never so strong as when you forgive.”
Kimberly Converse
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”
Gerald Jampolsky
