Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
– Isaac Friedmann
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
– Harriet Nelson
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
– Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
– Mark Twain
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
– William Arthur Ward
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
– Paul Boese
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
– Havelock Ellis
Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
– Roberto Assagioli
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
– John F. Kennedy
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
– Alexander Pope
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
– Alexander Chase
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you love? How deeply did you learn to let go?
– Buddha
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
– Zen Proverb
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
– Confucius
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
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself.
– William Shakespeare
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
– Thomas Szasz
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
– Ausonius
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
– Cherie Carter-Scott, “If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules”
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
– Franklin P. Adams
‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
– John Sheffield
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
– Dolores Huerta
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
– Josh Billings
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
– Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark
The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart – far more damaging to yourself than to them.
– Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
– Norman Cousins
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
– Stuart’s Law of Retroaction
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
– Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, “Personal Conduct”
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her…but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
– William Blake
