"True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."
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"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
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"Forgive those who have hurt you."
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"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."
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"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
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"I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his."
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"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
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"Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
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"My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people."
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"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."
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"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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"When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too."
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"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven."
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"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."
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"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself."
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"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
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"Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned."
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"That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become."
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"We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us."
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"In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence."
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