The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1. "The offender never pardons."
English proverb
2. "Critical remarks are only made by people who love you."
Federico Mayor
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility
3. "The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Epistolae ex Ponto"
Other categories: Law and Crime
4. "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. "
Mark Twain
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
5. "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"
Other categories: Egoism
6. "He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."
George Herbert
7. "Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."
Lawana Blackwell, "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"
Other categories: Egoism
8. "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
Other categories: Anger
9. "Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals."
Willa Cather
Other categories: Anger
10. "How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."
Publilius Syrus
Other categories: Happiness
11. "Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people."
Christina Baldwin
12. "If I die, I forgive you; If I live, we shall see."
Spanish proverb
Other categories: Egoism
13. "God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend."
Charles Spurgeon
Other categories: God and Religion
14. "I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness."
Jorge Luis Borges
Other categories: Memory
15. "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility
16. "Offer forgiveness not for their sake, but for your own health."
Tristan J. Loo
17. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."
Jesus Christ, Luke 17:3
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
18. "To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love."
Walter Lippmann
19. "Forgiveness is like the fragrance a flower gives after it's been stepped on."
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20. "Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!"
Max Lucado
21. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Paul Boese
22. "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
Grace Hopper
23. "I never forgive but I always forget."
Arthur Balfour
Other categories: Memory
24. "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
Other categories: Memory
25. "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"
26. "If we are bound to forgive an enemy,we are not bound to trust him."
Thomas Fuller
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Trust
27. "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
28. "I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness."
Simone Weil
29. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
Other categories: Love
30. "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Josh Billings
31. "A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."
William Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"
Other categories: Woman and Man
32. "To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend."
Mahatma Gandhi
Other categories: Anger
33. "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"
Other categories: Envy
34. "Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
35. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
Other categories: Power and Weakness
36. "We pardon to the extent that we love."
François de La Rochefoucauld
37. "One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
Socrates
Other categories: Justice
38. "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."
St. Augustine of Hippo
39. "We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
François de La Rochefoucauld
40. "Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.)"
Robert A. Heinlein, "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
Other categories: Woman and Man
41. "Forgiveness is not an occasional habit, it is a permanent attitude."
Martin Luther King
42. "One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."
Heinrich Heine
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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