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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

Stichwörter: definitions forgiveness

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Emma Goldman

Stichwörter: forgiveness anarchy understanding-others

In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Stichwörter: religion forgiveness bible

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: attributed-no-source enemies strategy forgiveness

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

Stichwörter: forgiveness

The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

Kent M. Keith

Stichwörter: honesty kindness happiness world misattributed-to-mother-teresa goodness forgiveness

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

Stichwörter: forgiveness

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Stichwörter: strength weakness forgiveness

one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry.

Ntozake Shange

Stichwörter: strength forgiveness sympathy apologies apology independance