1. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. ~Robert Quillen
2. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde
3. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
4. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. ~Cherie Carter-Scott
5. Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
6. Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ~Ausonius
7. Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. ~Real Live Preacher
8. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
9. Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. ~Martha Kilpatrick
10. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward
11. Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. ~Lawana Blackwell
12. Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. ~Lawana Blackwell
13. Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. ~Mahatma Gandhi
14. Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past. ~Unknown
15. Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. ~Unknown
16. Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision. ~Randall Worley
17. 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 Hammarskjold
18. Forgiveness is the final form of love. ~Reinhold Niebuhr
19. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
20. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. ~George MacDonald
21. Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. ~Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com
22. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ~Hannah Arendt
23. Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann
24. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. ~Doc Childre and Howard Martin
25. Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
26. Good nature and good sense must ever join; to err is human, to forgive divine. ~ A. Pope
27. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert
28. He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. ~The Koran
29. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ~Jean Paul Richter
30. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher
31. If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
32. If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? ~Dolores Huerta
33. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you."
34. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem
35. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. ~Stuart's Law of Retroaction
36. It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ~Jessamyn West
37. It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. ~Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com
38. It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller
39. Know all and you will pardon all. ~Thomas A’Kempis
40. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~Norman Cousins
41. Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. ~David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
42. Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. ~William Blake, from The Gates of Paradise
43. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E. H. Chapin
44. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
45. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ~H. Jackson Brown
46. Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast, 1930
47. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~Sholem Asch
48. Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. ~Lance Morrow
49. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich
50. One forgives to the degree that one loves. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
51. One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P. Jones
52. Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. ~Unknown
53. Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me. ~Sara Paddison
54. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. ~William Blake
55. The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. ~Lawana Blackwell
56. The offender never pardons. ~George Herbert
57. The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. ~Eric Hoffer
58. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ~Thomas Szasz
59. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi
60. There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings
61. There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
62. 'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. ~John Sheffield
63. To err is human; to forgive, divine. ~Alexander Pope
64. To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. ~Franklin P. Adams
65. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes
66. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies. ~Voltaire
67. We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. ~Martha Kilpatrick
68. We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ~Ellen Goodman
69. What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
70. When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. ~Bernard Meltzer
71. When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.~Catherine Ponder
72. Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen. ~Martha Kilpatrick
73. Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
74. Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. ~Lord Chesterfield
75. Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia
76. You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
77. You will find it is cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. ~Hannah More
78. You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. ~Lewis B. Smedes