Mother Teresa - Quotes

 People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. 

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Invictus - Quotes

 Nelson Mandela:
Forgiveness liberates the soul.
Nelson Mandela:
It removes fear.
Nelson Mandela:
That is why it is such a powerful weapon.
 

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Baby Boy - Quotes

 Sweet Pea:
Dear Lord, Please forgive us for all the sins we have brought upon us. And look down upon us with forgiveness for the the sins we will have in the future. I know you understand that niggas ain't perfect, but we try lord. We try to keep our heads up in bad times. This is a bad time, show us the way. And if you can't show us the way, then forgive us for being lost.
 

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Dead Man Walking - Quotes

 Prison guard:
Do you have any last words, Poncelet?
Matthew Poncelet:
Yes, I do. [pauses]
Matthew Poncelet:
Mr. Delacroix, I don't wanna leave this world with any hate in my heart. I ask your forgiveness for what I done. It was a terrible thing I done, taking your son away from you.
Clyde Percy:
[Softly to his wife] How about us?
Matthew Poncelet:
Mr. and Mrs. Percy, I hope my death gives you some relief.
 

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Khaled Hosseini - Quotes

 Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere. 

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,

Men were deceivers ever,-

One foot in sea and one on shore,

To one thing constant never. 

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Angie Jacques - Quotes

 one thing I don 

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The New World - Quotes

 Captain John Smith:
[voice over] They are gentle, loving, faithful, lacking in all guile and trickery. The words denoting lying, deceit, greed, envy, slander, and forgiveness have never been heard. They have no jealousy, no sense of possesion. Real, what I thought a dream.
 

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Jim Norton - Quotes

 While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window. 

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J.K. Rowling - Quotes

 Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. 

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Alberto Manguel - Quotes

 As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. 

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Andrew Solomon - Quotes

 It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless. 

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Lloyd Alexander - Quotes

 I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death. 

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Paulo Coelho - Quotes

 Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive. 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely 

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Man on Fire - Quotes

 Elderly Man:
In the church, they say to forgive.
Creasy:
Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.
 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. 

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Margaret Atwood - Quotes

 But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing. 

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Alexander Pope - Quotes

 To Err is human, forgive divine. 

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George Eliot - Quotes

 It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. 

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Ahmed Bedier - Quotes

 I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. 

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Cormac McCarthy - Quotes

 There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. 

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Katerina Stoykova Klemer - Quotes

 The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good. 

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Gordon B. Hinckley - Quotes

 The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed? 

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Maeve Binchy - Quotes

 I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and hoped for. You are much, much more. Please know that I didn't think I was mean-minded. But I realize I am. I don't want you to put your arms around me and say it's all right, that you forgive me. I want you to be sure that you do, and my love for you will last as long as I live. I can see no lightness, no humour, no joke to make. I just hope that we will be able to go back to when we had laughter, and the world was coloured, not black and white and grey. I am so sorry for hurting you. I could inflict all kinds of pain on myself, but it would not take back any I gave to you. - David Power 

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Robert Fanney - Quotes

 How can I judge? 

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Tove Jansson - Quotes

 All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant. 

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P.D. James - Quotes

 It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed. 

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J.D. Salinger - Quotes

 He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.  

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Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

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

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C.S. Lewis - Quotes

 To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. 

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Rita Mae Brown - Quotes

 One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.  

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Confucius - Quotes

 To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. 

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Hillary Rodham Clinton - Quotes

 In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart. 

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Martin Luther King Jr. - Quotes

 Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. 

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Marianne Williamson - Quotes

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

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Emma Goldman - Quotes

 Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.  

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Albert Camus - Quotes

 You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. 

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Jeremy C. Shipp - Quotes

 You want to know how to stop this killer? Forgive yourself, and he 

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Ana - Quotes

 What I cannot love, I overlook. 

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Jon Krakauer - Quotes

 When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God 

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C.S. Lewis - Quotes

 Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. 

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Victor Hugo - Quotes

 Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Cosette, that man is an angel! 

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Victor Hugo - Quotes

 Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'



Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis:



Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. 

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Adamantios Vassilakis - Quotes

 Life is an adventure in forgiveness 

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Khaled Hosseini - Quotes

 I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. 

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Jodi Picoult - Quotes

 What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget? 

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Alexander McCall Smith - Quotes

 Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other -- and land, of course.  

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