The best quotes about Forgiving

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

But if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

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

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver, to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly.

Albus Dumbledore: 'People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.'

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.