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Forgiveness Quotes by Famous Authors

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

Ankur Warikoo

Forgiveness, Apology, Self-compassion, Guilt, Healing

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

Ankur Warikoo

Acceptance, Forgiveness, Peace, Closure, Resilience

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

Parents, Mistakes, Humanity, Forgiveness, Imperfection

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

Caring, Friendship, Forgiveness, Love, Collective Strength

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

Sin, Forgiveness, Morality, Religion, Confession

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

Ramakrishna

Forgiveness, Ascetic, Nature, Purity, Peace

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Understanding, Renewal, Compassion

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

Forgiveness, Compassion, Heart, Peace, Healing

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

Pythagoras

Forgiveness, Friendship, Forgetfulness, Compassion, Kindness

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

Democritus

Repentance, Redemption, Forgiveness, Change, Morality

11. “Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

Scott Adams

Forgiveness, Revenge, Irony, Human Nature, Perspective

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

Leonard Cohen

Forgiveness, Indifference, Reflection, Wisdom, Life

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

Leonard Cohen

Redemption, Love, Regret, Devotion, Forgiveness

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

Leonard Cohen

Forgiveness, Love, Nostalgia, Relationships, Growth

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

Forgiveness, Mercy, Redemption, Faith, Wisdom

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

Forgiveness, Expression, Nature, Poetry, Reflection

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

Women, Forgiveness, Sacrifice, Relationships, Pride

18. “Women can’t forgive failure.”

Anton Chekhov

Women, Forgiveness, Strength, Society, Expectations

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

Emotion, Passion, Suffering, Forgiveness, Reason

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

Beauty, Devotion, Knowledge, Forgiveness, Character

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

Tara Brach

Forgiveness, Understanding, Compassion, Mindfulness, Spirituality

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

Seneca

Judgment, Forgiveness, Perspective, Humanity, Anger

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

Enlightenment, Forgiveness, Love, Gratitude, Perspective