a non-denominational resource on peace, reconciliation and forgiveness
Oscar Wilde
Widely attributed but not sourced.
John Green
Looking for Alaska
Mahatma Gandhi
All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
C.S. Lewis
Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost
Steve Maraboli
J.K. Rowling
August Wilson
Plato
Jane Austen
William Blake
Steve Maraboli
Robert Frost
John Green
Oscar Wilde
Alexander Pope
Oscar Wilde
C. JoyBell
Hanya Yanagihara
Rita Mae Brown
Corrie Ten Boom
Oprah Winfrey
Ellen Goodman
Gospet According to Luke
"Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless."
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience'"
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say: `Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation. Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, `Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.' Then the one inside answers, `Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.' I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness he will get up and give him as much as he needs. "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.'