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For
every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Finish
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
Perpetrators
who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change -- Pumla
Gobodo-Madikizela
an 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-Madikizela
For
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
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"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 Gülen
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It
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
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''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
Hammarskjöld
Forgiveness
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
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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 Hanh
The
practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of
human actions.” -- Thich
Nhat Hanh
To
reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering
of both sides. --
Thich Nhat Hanh
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“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
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"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
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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
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"You’re
only human. Let’s break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high
on the wings of forgiveness." -- India.Arie
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“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
