"Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all."
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"No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins."
"I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well."
"We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how."
"I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you."
"Forgive yourself for not being at peace."
"I # forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating."
"I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it."
"God forgive you, but I never can."
"I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity."
"There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'."
"Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun."
"Youre supposed to remember, and still forgive."
"You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle."
"I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here."
"The more people know, the more they forgive."
"My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him."
"God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth."
"I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency."
"To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none"