Forgiveness Quotes

The only journey is the journey within. --Rainer Maria Rilke

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent free space in your mind.

--Isabelle Holland

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.

--Herman Hesse

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

--Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness quotes to help you find joy in your life as you continue the process of personal development.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

--Paul Boese

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

--Les Brown

As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness, I will see a world of peace and safety and joy.

--A Course In Miracles

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

--Mahatma Gandhi

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

--Seamus Heaney

The supreme act of courage is that of forgiving ourselves. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth, to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

--Kauffman

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

--Ann Landers

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

--Zoë Akins

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

--Catherine Porter

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

--George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.

--Randall Worley

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

--Publilius Syrus

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 again made clean.

--Dag Hammarskjold

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

--Louise Hay

I hope you enjoyed these forgiveness quotes. ~Adam

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