Forgive Quotes

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.