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Forgiveness

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven. – Thomas Fuller

Forgiveness is the final form of love. – Reinhold Niebuhr

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To err is human to forgive, divine. – Alexander Pope

Forgotten is forgiven. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. – Robert Fripp

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. – Gerald Jampolsky

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. – Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. – Saint Augustine

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. – Bryant H. McGill

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson

One forgives to the degree that one loves. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To be social is to be forgiving. – Robert Frost

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. – Elbert Hubbard

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. – Billy Graham

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. – Suzanne Somers

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. – Les Brown

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. – Honore de Balzac

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. – Jane Austen