1.“Tell them you still love them, and they will get the message.” -Yoko Onoa
2.“It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.” -Francis of Assisi
3.“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.” -Albert Einstein
4.“To understand everything is to forgive everything.” -Osho
5.“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.” -Publius Syrus
6.“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” -Buddha
7.“If you cannot forgive yourself, you cannot forgive others.” -D Muthukrishnan
8.“Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and highest achievement.” -Horace Bushnell
9.“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” -Confucius
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10.“Love the sinner and hate the sin.” -Augustine of Hippo
11.“The simple truth is, we all make mistakes, and we all need forgiveness.” -Desmond Tutu
12.“The highest result of education is tolerance.” -Helen Keller
13.“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” -Booker T. Washington
14.“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” -Bob Hope
15.“Your ego is not ready to forgive but your soul is.” -Maxime Lagacé
16.“Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” -Mel Robbins Click to tweet
17.“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.” -Emily Brontë
18.“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -Martin Luther King Jr
19.“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” -Unknown
20.“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?” -Jodi Picoult
21.“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.” -Lord Chesterfield
22.“Forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.” -Jorge Luis Borges
23.“The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.” -Fred Rogers
24.“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
25.“Do not waste your life taking revenge on the shadows of those you cannot forget or forgive.” -Accept. Endure.
26.“Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.” -Martin Luther King Jr
27.“There is great freedom in not needing to await the forgiveness of another.” -Kapil Gupta
28.“While revenge weakens society, forgiveness gives it strength.” -14th Dalai Lama
29.“It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” -Maya Angelou
30.“Happiness is a choice. Forgiveness is a choice. Acceptance, anger, desire, love…all choices. Your time. Your choice.” -Scott Shaw
31.“As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.” -Madame de Stael
32.“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” -Marcus Aurelius
33.“Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.” -Byron Katie
34.“Forgiveness is the answer.” -Maya Angelou
35.“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.” -Suzanne Somers
36.“To forgive is to understand the origins of evil and cruelty.” -Alain de Botton
37.“Forgiveness is a prerequisite to peace. Make the decision to let go of pain and refuse to be jaded by negative experiences.” -Brenden Dilley
38.“Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.” -Desmond Tutu
39.“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.” -Anne Lamott
40.“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” -Mahatma Gandhi
41.“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” -Indira Gandhi
42.“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.” -Desmond Tutu
43.“Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.” -Mahatma Gandhi
44.“If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.” -Mother Teresa
45.“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” -Martin Luther King Jr
46.“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” -Oscar Wilde
47.“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” -Mark Twain
48.“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience”. -Oprah Winfrey
49.“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” -John F. Kennedy
50.“Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.” -Maya Angelou
