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* For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-- Ralph Waldo EmersonFinish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Forgiving is an act of mercy toward an offender. We are no longer controlled by angry feelings toward this person."
-- Robert D. Enright"Forgiveness works directly on the emotion of anger (and related constructs such as resentment, hostility, or hatred) by diminishing its intensity or level within the mind and heart."
-- Richard Fitzgibbons
* "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
-- Mohandas K. GandhiThe weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mohandas K. GandhiForgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi
* "Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it."
-- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change
-- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizelaan act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.
-- Pumla Gobodo-MadikizelaFor perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.
-- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
* "Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."
-- Emma Goldman
Thanks to their hope for forgiveness, humans can rise above the dark clouds that threaten their horizon and seize the opportunity to see light in their world.
-- M. Fethullah GülenIt is impossible for people who have given their heart to seeking forgiveness not to think of forgiving others. Just as they desire to be forgiven, they also desire to forgive.
-- M. Fethullah Gülen"To forgive is to set yourself free, to acknowledge that it does no good to hate. Hate really, really destroys both the other person and yourself. That realization is what I think taught me about forgiveness, and so I try to live by it."
--Ruby Bridges Hall
''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.”
-- Dag HammarskjöldForgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
-- Dag Hammarskjöld
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
-- Thich Nhat HanhThe practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
-- Thich Nhat HanhTo reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
* “As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”
-- George Harrison
"Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it."
-- Ken Hart
"Watch our for each other. Love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it!"
-- Jim Henson
"Forgiveness does not stand on its own. It is not "unilateral disarmament." Rather it balances self-criticism with commitment to nonviolent social change, which becomes a way of life that does not offer easy answers to complex problems."
-- Karen Hessel
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
-- Dolores Huerta
You know you have forgiven someone when he or she has harmless passage through your mind.
-- Rev. Karyl Huntley
* "You’re only human.
Let’s break free of this gravity of judgment
And fly high on the wings of forgiveness."
-- India.Arie
* “You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.”
-- Janet Jackson
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. It is not something you do FOR someone else.
-- Larry James"Forgiveness is an act of the imagination. It dares you to imagine a better future, one that is based on the blessed possibility that your hurt will not be the final word on the matter. It challenges you to give up your destructive thoughts about the situation and to believe in the possibility of a better future. It builds confidence that you can survive the pain and grow from it. "
-- Larry James
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