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To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”.
— Jennifer Sodini
The Light in me IS the Light in you,and the Light in you IS me.
— Deborah "Atianne" Wilson
Education is a vital path to achieve success. Using what we've learnt to help others completes it,and the result of selfless sharing of knowledge is both spiritually enlightening and humbly satisfying
— Lateef Abader
There is no "I", there's only "we". Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you, and a part of me.
— Jennifer Sodini
Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The Supreme lesson of Life is Love....
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
In order to reach for the stars, you must have both feet planted firmly on the ground.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
We are beings emanating energy of multiple colors and sounds of Light.
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it’s the foundation of the human experienceWe all ultimately want a pain free existence, unfortunately circumstances of unrest bring to light the spiritual laws designed to play themselves out in the everyday experiences of the human race.
— Brian Edward Arsenault
You have everything when you embrace the full circle of life.
— Kathryn V. White
What You Get Is What You Got Because Only One Who Gives You That And That Is God.
— Aveanne Mae DS. Tugano
Make sure when you reach for the stars, you keep both feet firmly planted on the ground.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
When I remove the layers that say I can't, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The wealthiest Person on earth is one who is free from the love of Money
— Andrew Darrah
Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Gratitude opens the door to faith and faith opens the door to our relationship with God.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
You won't find your soul in a textbook, self-help book, or buy it in a store. Sometimes, it's just a matter of looking past the anger, regret, and envy to see its smiling face.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Whenever you are seeking for too long, it is because you are rushing. Whenever you are not finding, it is because you don’t want to seek.
— Angelos Ioannis, The Reencounter: A Spiritual Journey
When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Action, not philosophy will get you going. Pick yourself up and move forward. That is the only way you can still enjoy life while you are blessed to be living it.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Although to our automatic brain, change always means potential danger. In order to calm that brain, it means embracing change so to turn on the light in our mind and open the door to our true potential.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
God's image is more than flesh and bones.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Guilt is to your health as a thief is to your wealth.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Take a moment, right now, and consider the enormity of activity going on inside of you – from the billions of cells to the even more billions of microscopic organisms. And in that same moment consider the enormity of activity in the oceans, the forests, the jungles, the earth below your feet, right now. And before you take your next breath, consider what might be going on in the outer regions of the universe. Finally, ask yourself, am I really in a position to discount possibilities beyond the limits of my conscious experience?
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.
— Mother Teresa
You are awareness, disguised as a person.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Mother Nature is our teacher—reconnecting us with Spirit, waking us up and liberating our hearts. When we can transcend our fear of the creatures of the forest, then we become one with all that is; we enter a unity of existence with our relatives—the animals, the plants and the land that sustains us.
— Sylvia Dolson, Joy of Bears
The thoughts that creep into our brain about other people tell us less about those people than they do about ourself...Understand that most judgments of others are an attempt to empower ourselves and give a sense of being better than the person we judge...Our primitive nature (automatic brain) helps us believe that this is necessary for protection. Following this natural tendency puts up further obstructions to the law of attraction.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others.
— Julia Heywood
Connecting with the wilderness allows us to live in the flow of a meaningful, joyful life. Embracing this state of connectedness or oneness with other living beings including animals, as opposed to feeling an “otherness” or “separateness” brings a sense of harmony and enables us to be at peace with oneself and the world.
— Sylvia Dolson, Joy of Bears
No one knows what path you should follow except yourself. You are your own wise teacher. You are your own Guru.
— Grace G. Payge, A narrow escape from an ordinary life: A true story
Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want...
— Julia Heywood
Don't wait for the law of attraction to happen to you; make it happen for you, by taking action. Once you do this, you will experience the law of revelation.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The human mind and body are truly extraordinary. They are the quintessence of excellence in motion. We talk, touch, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel. We dream, aspire, and become. All that we are is mind and body and spirit—that is our universe.
— Lorii Myers
Experiential versus the God eye! Possessing ‘ego vision’, a person’s view through her/his physical eyes is quite versatile; able to discern wide and varied vistas over huge distances or scrutinizing the minutest of details.Ego’s very nature: capable of relatively expansive, detailed, and yet individualistic perspective is crucial. Separating itself out from the God Force, ego extracts infinite unique experiences, integral to humanity’s process of spiritualizing matter. Incarnating on the earth, achieving individualism is therefore critical for attainment of divinity.Individualism may cause momentary estrangement from the God Self. However, this person has forgotten that they are everything in the mirror, the ‘sliver’ and the ‘ball of light’,” continues Kuan Yin.During this complex passage Lena was inundated by infinite rapid-fire visuals: emanations from the God Mind.“Further and unfortunately, wrong assumptions are made about suffering. Some individuals even believe that it is required, that suffering brings one closer to salvation. Quite the contrary,” disputes Kuan Yin, “the God Force likes to play. Therefore, if all individuals could unite creating a real sense of community many problems could be healed.The God Force is separate and not separate, whole and not whole at the same time. Really, it is not ‘sliceable’, not reducible. Even when it is sliced into individual energies, it does not diminish the total God Force or the power of the individual.Each of you has the potential for the God Force potency. However, no individual can overcome the God Force. There is a misinterpretation, (by some) that Satan is as powerful as God. Limited energy cannot live on its own. Every experience must exist and yet they (the limiting forces) can never exist on their own. Limited energy, then, is the experience of the absence of the God Force. Therefore, there is no need to fear it.Those choosing such experiences have a need to understand how it feels to believe evil powers exist. Again, I say those who pursue this route are taking it too personally. They believe the story they’ve made up about themselves.It is similar to a person going into an ice cream store and only choosing one flavor from many. Preoccupied with tasting that flavor for a very long time, they are probably quite sick and tired of it. Still, they don’t want to believe there are any other flavors available. The ‘agreement’, then, is to continue to believe in that particular flavor. Here’s where reincarnation and its opportunity for experiencing a vast array of perspectives, “agreements”, enters in. Another life offers another opportunity, a chance to ‘switch flavors’ so to speak.Taking oneself too personally, however, can cause a soul to get caught up, stuck in redundancy: in a particular (and perhaps unfortunate) flavor. In such instances, the individual is forgetting one has the ability to choose his or her flavors, lives,” contends Kuan Yin.
— Hope Bradford, Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin
Be strong within ones self, but never forget where ones true strength comes from.
— Jean Williams
The power of Manifestation is the ability to make seen the unseen, to real~ise the unreal
— Misha Hoo
When you are where wild bears liveyou learn to pay attention to the rhythm of the land and yourself. Bears not only make the habitat rich, they enrich us just by being.
— Linda Jo Hunter, Lonesome for Bears: A Woman's Journey in the Tracks of the Wilderness
To experience peace ~ stop disturbing it!
— Julia Heywood
Remember the order of life. Sometimes we forget how it was intended to be.
— Jean Williams
Kuan Yin is showing me picture of a windsurfer skimming effortlessly along the ocean's surface," describes Ms. Lees. "While quite skilled, he is nevertheless very focused on the elements around him. The windsurfer is focused upon how to turn the sail. His question must always be, 'what am I going to do with the wind that is blowing right now,'" instructs Kuan Yin: “There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen: karma and free will. The question is, ‘how are you going to handle what you have?’ You are riding the karmic wave underneath and the wind can shift. Everyone must take what they see and deal with that which is unseen.
— Hope Bradford, Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16
— John Apostle
There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith
— Swetha Dhanagari
In order for someone to follow you, you must be true to heart and purpose. This is true in any relationship. Someone may follow you for awhile without it, but not a lifetime.
— Jean Williams
The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home.
— Patsie Smith
I’m reminded of how passionate Kuan Yin is about the importance of being human on this earth,” continues Lena.“It’s the most important thing in your existence,” states Kuan Yin. “Your existence is eternal. This phase (of your soul) is so important because you learn so much in human form. This is where the individual’s ‘spark’ of existence can expand into bigger, more powerful energies.
— Hope Bradford, Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin
Sweet be the glanceswe exchange,Our faces showing true concord;Enshrine me in your heart and let one spiritdwell within us.
— Atharva Veda 7.36
If you do not pray, you easily become a prey!
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
It is not for you to determine your purpose, the reason for your existence. You discover your purpose by asking the Creator why he created you!
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
Always forgive your enemies
—  nothing annoys them so much.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie ten Boom
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
— Oprah Winfrey
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
— Mark Twain
Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat......Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.........Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.........Forgiveness does not excuse anything.........You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness......
— William Paul Young, The Shack
These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.
— Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
— C.S. Lewis
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
— John F. Kennedy
To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
— Confucius
Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?
— Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
— Nelson Mandela
Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.
— Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You
What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
— Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
— Kahlil Gibran
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
— Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
— Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
— Charlaine Harris
I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Forgiveness isn’t my best thing.Easier staying pissed. But I’mtired of being pissed all the time.Tired of feeling hurt by stuff thatcan never be fixed because it isan indelible part of the past.
— Ellen Hopkins, Fallout
They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same 
— Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
— Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve
I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.
— Deb Caletti
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
— Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
— Socrates
See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event -- it's a process. Forgiveness happens while you're asleep, while you're dreaming, while you're inline at the coffee shop, while you're showering, eating, farting, jerking off. It happens in the back of your mind, and then one day you realize that you don't hate the person anymore, that your anger has gone away somewhere. And you understand. You've forgiven them. You don't know how or why. It sneaked up on you. It happened in the small spaces between thoughts and in the seconds between ideas and blinks. That's where forgiveness happens. Because anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth. At least, that's what I hope.
— Barry Lyga, Boy Toy
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
— Emma Goldman
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.
— Cherie Carter-Scott
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
— Joyce Cary
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
— Anne Lamott
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
— George Eliot
When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
— William Arthur Ward
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
— William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
— Karl Lagerfeld
I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and were fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you are still hurt. If only women would realize that "we all" have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses.
— Shannon L. Alder
I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.
— Elizabeth Lowell, Sweet Wind, Wild Wind
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.
— Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.
— Jennifer McMahon, Island of Lost Girls
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them becausethey need it--because we need it. I'm sure you felt much better after forgiving your son.
— Bree Despain
Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
— Jodi Picoult, Mercy
In this life, when you deny someone an apology,you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
... In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive
— Yvonne Wood, Dead Beautiful
A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.
— Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
— Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton
Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions.
— Dōgen
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
— Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
— Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
Forgiveness is not a one off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.
— Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
— Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.
— Sonia Rumzi
There are many ways that I have hurt and harmed others, have betrayed or abandoned them, caused them suffering, knowingly or unknowingly, out of my pain, fear, anger, and confusion. Let yourself remember and visualize the ways you have hurt others. See the pain you have caused out of your own fear and confusion. Feel your own sorrow and regret. Sense that finally you can release this burden and ask for forgiveness. Take as much time as you need to picture each memory that still burdens your heart. And then as each person comes to mind, gently say:I ask for your forgiveness, I ask for your forgiveness.
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
We forgive so long as we love.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims
I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.
— Jennifer Ashley, Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
— Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)
— Rob Bell
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
But why is it so hard to forgive?' Mrs. Conners asked.'Pride,' Dad said. 'This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give something up, in order to forgive him.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.
— Mark   Matthews
He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.
— Marilynne Robinson
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
— Catherine Ponder
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.
— Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on
— Homer, The Iliad
We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.
— Madonna
I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what happened to your marriage, and I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.
— Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You
Sometimes we carry unhappy feelings about past hurts too long. We spend too much energy dwelling on things that have passed and cannot be changed. We struggle to close the door and let go of the hurt. If, after time, we can forgive whatever may have caused the hurt, we will tap 'into a life-giving source of comfort' through the Atonement, and the 'sweet peace' of forgiveness will be ours ("My Journey to Forgiving," Ensign, Feb. 1997. 43). Some injuries are so hurtful and deep that healing comes only with help from a higher power and hope for perfect justice and restitution in the next life. . . . You can tap into that higher power and receive precious comfort and sweet peace.
— James E. Faust
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency
—  to forgive them is cruelty.
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.
— Gayle Forman, I Was Here
It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)
— Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
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
If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality.
— José Saramago, Blindness
I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. 
— Alan Paton
...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
— Timothy J. Keller
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 Estés
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
— Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ancestors of Avalon
Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me instead of brushing aside any offer of help, as I did for years out of anger. Letting her handle all the money I won. Returning her hugs instead of tolerating them. My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn’t help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father’s death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
I define myself by helping others. This is what I do.Those people who want me to abandon my husband are asking me to put myself first and to judge him. The poor man has been judged unfairly by others. Why would I abandon him in his greatest need?
— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker, The Fugitive's Doctor
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
— Samuel Butler
They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions.
— Emily Thorne
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
— Richard Paul Evans
To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I’m going to err towards beating you with this stick.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done.
— Jeramey Kraatz, Villains Rising
There are some who say that you should forgive everyone, even the people whohave disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huff no matter how many times they apologize. Of these two philosophies, the second one is of course much more fun, but it can also grow exhausting to stomp off in a huff every time someone has disappointed you, as everyone disappoints everyone eventually, and one can’t stomp off in a huff every minute of the day.
— Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love.
— Ildefonso Falcones, La catedral del mar
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
— Coretta Scott King
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
— Andy Stanley, It Came from Within!: The Shocking Truth of What Lurks in the Heart
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
— William Arthur Ward
Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Cosette, that man is an angel!
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
— Lewis B. Smedes
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
— P.D. James, The Children of Men
But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.”“I will.”“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
You never know how long you have-there might not BE a later-so don't let things go unsaid or unforgiven.
— Dawn Metcalf, Luminous
You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
— Beth Kephart, Undercover
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
— E. Stanley Jones, Gandhi: Portrayal of a Friend
I can always forgive where I understand.
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
At the moment, it's simply a difference of opinon between the Doctor and you.. You both want the best. You've only tried to kill him a couple of times... I mean, don't worry about that. I've seen people do much worse to him and at the end of the day he'll take them out for pizza. He's very forgiving. The Doctor is brilliant,' [said Rory]
— James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
— Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative feelings came upon me, I wouldn't wait for them to grow or fester. I would always turn immediately to the Source of all true power: I would turn to God and let His love and forgiveness protect and save me.
— Immaculée Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
— Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.
— Rick Joyner
Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution.
— Pierce Brown, Morning Star
Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
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
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
— Hannah More
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
— Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus + Nothing = Everything
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
— Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief
She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.
— Elizabeth  George, A Suitable Vengeance
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need itwe need it.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda
— Ouida
Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.Acts 13:38
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it.
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.
— S.J. Watson
Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveris amaverit… Everything was love. Everything will be love. Everything has been love. Everything would be love. Everything would have been love. Ah, that was it, the truth at last. Everything would have been love. The huge eye, which had become an immense sphere, was gently breathing, only it was not an eye nor a sphere but a great wonderful animal covered in little waving legs like hairs, waving oh so gently as if they were under water. All shall be well and all shall be well said the ocean. So the place of reconciliation existed after all, not like a little knot hole in a cupboard but flowing everywhere and being everything. I had only to will it and it would be, for spirit is omnipotent only I never knew it, like being able to walk on the air. I could forgive. I could be forgiven. I could forgive. Perhaps that was the whole of it after all. Perhaps being forgiven was just forgiving only no one had ever told me. There was nothing else needful. Just to forgive. Forgiving equals being forgiven, the secret of the universe, do not whatever you do forget it. The past was folded up and in the twinkling of an eye everything had been changed and made beautiful and good.
— Iris Murdoch, A Word Child
The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases. Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a zone of dependence in growth and decay; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.
— Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons
Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.
— Ray A. Davis