When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Our practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

To err is human to forgive, divine.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of human nature can arrive at.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

A brave man thinks no one is his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself his superior to the other by forgiving it.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

To understand all is to forgive all.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.Forgiveness gives you back the laugther and the lightness in your life.