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"It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please."
"To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice."
"Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship."
"Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do."
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it"
"All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon."
"How accommodating love is; it forgives everything."
"I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion."
"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."
"Women do not forget. Women do not forgive."
"O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once."
"Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes."
"Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours."
"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood."
"I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!"
"If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy."
"Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!"
"Today's games are more forgiving in the sense that you can save your game almost anywhere, and get back into the action very quickly, whereas in POP when you died you had to go back to the beginning of the level."
"Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows."