“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” - Reinhold Niebuhr -
“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
- Roberto Assagioli -
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” - Nelson Mandela -
“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
- William Arthur Ward -
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” - Josh Billings -
"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison." - Nelson Mandela -
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
- Lewis B. Smedes -
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” - Hannah Arendt -
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
- Thomas Szasz -
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Mahatma Gandhi -
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.” - Mother Theresa -
“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.” - George MacDonald -
“As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.” - Isabelle Holland -
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.” - Dag Hammarskjold -
“Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.”
- Phillips Brooks -
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” - Abraham Lincoln -
“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.” - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy -
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