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Heinrich Heine - God will forgive me. It's his job.
Arthur Balfour - I never forgive, but I always forget.
Catherine the Great - I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Grace Hopper - It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Jewel - Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Princess Diana - When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Jessica Lange - Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
T. D. Jakes - We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
Friedrich Nietzsche - If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Bernard Baruch - One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Robert Frost - Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Reinhold Niebuhr - Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Jean Paul - Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jane Austen - Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Robert Downey, Jr. - The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
Phillips Brooks - Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Bernard Meltzer - When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Martin Luther - Forgiveness is God's command.
Elizabeth I - God forgive you, but I never can.
Suzanne Somers - Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Mahavira - Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
William Blake - It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
John F. Kennedy - Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Josh Billings - There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Hannah Arendt - Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Thomas Szasz - The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Francis of Assisi - It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Tyler Perry - It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Mark Twain - Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Lewis B. Smedes - To forgive is to set a prisoner and discover that the prisoner was you.
Maya Angelou - It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Mahatma Gandhi - The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Bruce Lee - Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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