Forgiveness

(68 votes)   Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Rhonda Britten
Founder, Fearless Living Institute

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(435 votes)   Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice. Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(229 votes)   Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(224 votes)   Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(220 votes)   Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.

Mishkat Al-massabaih

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(183 votes)   Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(173 votes)   You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself.

Auson

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(142 votes)   In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(142 votes)   Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(141 votes)   So sad is a man who has never learned to forgive

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(126 votes)   Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(105 votes)   Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(96 votes)   The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(88 votes)   If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(82 votes)   A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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