Forgiving Quotes - Page 34

• I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

  Willie Nelson

  Distance, Nashville, Enemy

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.53, Penguin

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• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  Seth Godin

  Careers, Errors, Effort

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

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• I forgive. First, because I've been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I'm going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don't forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours.

  Rick Warren

  Needs, Benefits, Firsts

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• Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

  Denise Austin

  Moving, Life Is Too Short, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Feb 11, 2012

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• The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

  Ron Smothermon

  Compassion, Inability, Lack Of Knowledge

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• Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parent, Sometimes

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• If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

  Stephen G. Post

  Gratitude, Hurt, Thinking

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• Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Criminals, Nazi

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• Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Opportunity, Missing

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• Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don't be fearful of losing love. If you don't live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.

  Behdad Sami

  Pain, Dirty, Live Life

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• One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and make mistakes. If we emulate God, we are led to forgive. Giving someone the ability to recapture their dignity can transform lives. Do it often.

  John Fairclough

  Mistake, Giving, World

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• Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die and then some. Mom, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you're not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mom.

  Christopher Titus

  Crazy, Real, Kids

  "Titus / The Visit". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs. It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony. It was not an easy choice in any way. But I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. That was a decision I made for me, for our son and for our family.

  Huma Abedin

  Son, Choices, Decision

  "Huma Abedin's statement on husband Anthony Weiner an unprecedented stance" by Emily Ngo, www.newsday.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

  Todd Walker

  Photography, Cameras, Film

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• Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Boys, Two, Justice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

  Hannah Arendt

  Done, Redemption, Predicaments

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

  Peter McWilliams

  Past, Luxury, Wealth And Happiness

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• I can never forgive God for having invented the French

  Peter Ustinov

  Never Forgive, I Can

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• You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ifs, Adversaries

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• Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Father, Squares, Heaven

  Eugene H. Peterson, Jim Lyster, John Sharon, Peter Santucci (1997). “Subversive Spirituality”, p.263, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Mother, Father, People

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• In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Example, Worship, God Is Love

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about to delete the RAW files but decided to play with the curves first because I like the composition. It turned out that the image, although underexposed by two stops, was better than the fill-flashed images because the fire was the only source of illumination and it looked more real.

  Peter Menzel

  Real, Fire, Curves

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• Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

  T. D. Jakes

  May, Forgiven

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• As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

  John Sandford

  Hurt, Pain, Garden

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