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Wednesday, 7 January 2009
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"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." (Baudrillard, Jean - Smile)

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Browse Quotations about Forgiveness

A man must learn to forgive himself.
A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
Forgive and forget.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Forgive those who have hurt you.
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Forgiveness is God's command.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it
Forgotten is forgiven.
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
God has a big eraser.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
God will forgive me, that's his business.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
He who forgives ends the quarrel
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
I never forgive, but I always forget.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17]
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Never repeat old grievances.
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.