"We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly."
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"We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget."
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"Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge."
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"For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me."
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"We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again."
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"For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves."
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"Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free."
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"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
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"Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you."
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"Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation."
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"Jesus didn't just die to forgive you, He rose to live through you."
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"To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates."
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"But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me."
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"Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin."
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"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."
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"How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself."
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"Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective."
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"... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it."
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"The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull."
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"The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven."
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