Madame de Staelīe tolerant with others and strict with yourself. 14th Dalai LamaĪs we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. While revenge weakens society, forgiveness gives it strength. Acceptance, anger, desire, love…all choices. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Friedrich NietzscheĪ life lived without forgiveness is a prison. Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. Alain de Botton (Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person) We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness”, striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners. There is great freedom in not needing to await the forgiveness of another. Until we can forgive, we remain locked in our pain and locked out of the possibility of experiencing healing and freedom, locked out of the possibility of being at peace. Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. Men forget, but never forgive women forgive, but never forget. Josh ShippĪny fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness. Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. UnknownĬan you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been? Jodi Picoult (Sing You Home) Martin Luther King Jrįorgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. Chris Ruden ( Source)ĭarkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. They might not deserve forgiveness but I deserve peace, so I forgive them. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. It is for God to punish wicked people we should learn to forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look to those who can forgive. If you want to see the brave, look to those who can return love for hatred.
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