535 Quotes About Forgiving

She tries to pronounce this in a way that communicates several things: apology, painful embarrassment, some additional feigned embarrassment that serves to ironise and dilute the painful kind, a sense that she knows she will be forgiven or is already, a desire not to ‘make a big deal’.

Of my father I know even less than of my mother. I do not even know his name. I have heard reports to the effect that he was a white man who lived on one of the near-by plantations. Whoever he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing in any way for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with him. He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

Maybe in the end, not letting yourself forgive someone — you were the one who paid the price for that, nobody else.

Forgiving executes inner beauty and brilliance of character, which enlightens the heart and mind.

Forgiving others' mistakes, wrong and harmful conduct measures and determines the magnitude of patience and purifies heart and mind; learn it from humanity since it dignifies human.

Our ability to forgive depends more on how much we love than on how much we are loved.

Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.