Learn Through Quotations

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”

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

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

“Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.”

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forgiving my own character.”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.”

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

“Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.”

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”

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

“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”

“One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.”

“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.”

“A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.”

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

“It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.”