"Without forgiveness, there's no future."
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"Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass."
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"Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust."
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"To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius."
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"It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it."
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"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil."
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"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."
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"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
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"Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds."
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"Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace."
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"Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
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"I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion."
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"Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
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"Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words."
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"Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer."
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"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
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"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
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"I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own."
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