#forgiveness

"For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them."

"To be angry is easy, but to forgive is hard. That's why to love is easy, and to love is hard. I try to be so hard that I'm soft, like a liquid rock, fluid and forgiving, but unmovable in my resolve."

"Love hard--forgive harder."

"Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love."

"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."

"Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane."

"Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe."

"Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

"Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or is it really them? God doesn’t make us try so hard, only enemies do."

"Forgive the past to welcome the future."

"Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain."

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

"Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace."

"Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails."

"Forgiveness is the final form of love."

"Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family."

"... 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"

"This year I vow to learn how to garden. I will be the Farmer of Love and grow in understanding and forgiveness."