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30 powerful quotes on forgiveness

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In this world, we are offended almost daily. As we continue to live our life chasing our dreams with passion, many of us fail to understand the importance of forgiveness. We end up having an entire vault full of anger and resentment. This results in emotionally stress, tiredness and can also lead to physical illness. We have to forgive others and carry on with our life, for there is no point in being hung up over that incident. Forgiveness is also a growing process, it indicates how you have matured. By forgiving, it shows that you have learned from whatever happened and managed to bury the hatchet. Here are 30 quotes that can help you understand the importance of forgiveness.

  1. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahamata Ghandi
  2. “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”  ― Alexander Pope
  3. “True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.” ” ― Oprah Winfrey
  4. “To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.” ― Confucius
  5. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” ― Desmond Tutu
  6. “We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.” ― T.D. Jakes
  7. “When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” ―  Bernard Meltzer
  8. “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” ― Indira Gandhi

  9. “One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.” – Bernard Baruch
  10. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” ― William Blake
  11. “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”  ― Josh Billings
  12. “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” ― William Arthur Ward
  13. “But we can’t go back. We can only go forward.” ― Libba Bray
  14. “I find forgiveness to be really healthy.” ― Ben Affleck
  15. “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.” – Tyler Perry
  16. “A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.” ― Santosh Kalwar
  17. “Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.” ― Ray A. Davis
  18. “Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set free”  ― Dana Arcuri
  19. “Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.” ― Lawana Blackwell
  20. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu
  21. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”  ― Abraham Lincoln
  22. “An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”  ―  Kahlil Gibran
  23. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”  ―  Gautama Buddha
  24. “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.” ―  Anne Lamott
  25. “A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”  ―  William Arthur Ward
  26. “One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.” – Bernard Baruch
  27. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”  ―  Cherie Carter-Scott
  28. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”  ―  Oprah Winfrey
  29. “A heart filled with anger has no room for love.”  ― Joan Lunden
  30. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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