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Forgiveness Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “We seek an apology but rarely forgive ourselves.”

Ankur Warikoo

2. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.”

Ankur Warikoo

3. “Parents are wrong not because they want to be wrong, they're wrong because every one of us will be wrong at some point.”

Ankur Warikoo

4. “When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.”

Jimmy Carter

5. “I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”

Jimmy Carter

6. “Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.”

Ramakrishna

7. “I don’t have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

8. “Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

9. “Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.”

Pythagoras

10. “The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.”

Democritus

11. “Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

Scott Adams

12. “Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.”

Leonard Cohen

13. “I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.”

Leonard Cohen

14. “I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.”

Leonard Cohen

15. “An elder was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?”

Thomas Merton

16. “Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.”

Thomas Merton

17. “A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.”

Anton Chekhov

18. “Women can’t forgive failure.”

Anton Chekhov

19. “A man ought to be able to be carried away by his feelings, he ought to be able to be mad, to make mistakes, to suffer! A woman will forgive you audacity and insolence, but she will never forgive your reasonableness!”

Anton Chekhov

20. “The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.”

Chanakya

21. “Nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.”

Tara Brach

22. “A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.”

Seneca

23. “Look the world through the eyes of a mother. Enlightenment gives you the power to see the world in the eyes of a loving mother. See the world through the lens of forgiveness, gratefulness and carefulness.”

Amit Ray

24. “As fasting activates autophagy and heals our body, forgiveness activates auto-metamorphosis and heals our soul.”

Amit Ray

25. “Unless you forgive, unless you open the wings of your heart you cannot move forward.”

Amit Ray

26. “To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.”

Sophocles

27. “Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.”

Sophocles

28. “Healing cannot be done by settling a score.”

Alice Walker

29. “Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It’s about the intention of what you want it to do.”

Alice Walker

30. “There is no graceful way to carry hatred.”

Alice Walker

31. “You know how big love is? Love is big. Love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.”

Alice Walker

32. “We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia.”

George Soros

33. “Mercy surpasses justice.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

34. “No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.”

Henry Ward Beecher

35. “Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”

Henry Ward Beecher

36. “The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

Henry Ward Beecher

37. “Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.”

Henry Ward Beecher

38. “Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”

Henry Ward Beecher

39. “God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”

Henry Ward Beecher

40. “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

Henry Ward Beecher

41. “I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”

Henry Ward Beecher