Forgiving Quotes - Page 37

• I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

  Richard E. Grant

  Loyalty, Impossible, Found

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• A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Habit, Middle

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Loser, Winner

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• God forgives those who invent what they need.

  Lillian Hellman

  Needs, Invention, God Forgives

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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• I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

  Lauryn Hill

  People, Manipulation, Resentment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Forgiveness, God, Forgive Me

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• If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

  Jesse Jackson

  Heart, Joy, Forgive Me

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, Strong, Thinking

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2016

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• If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

  T. D. Jakes

  Strong, Issues, People

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• When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

  T. D. Jakes

  Decision

  "Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

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• Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

  Elton John

  Jesus, Wanted

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

  Angelina Jolie

  Forgiveness, Mother, Morning

  "'Do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman?'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. June 6, 2005.

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• I remember everything but forgive anyway.

  Erica Jong

  Remembers Everything, Remember

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• Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Doe, Looks

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

  Garrison Keillor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Good Life

  "Leaving Home". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1987.

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• Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Relationship, Teacher

  "The Imitation of Christ. Book I, ch. 16". Book by Thomas a Kempis, 1418.

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• I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Forgiveness, Heart, Long

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• The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Father, Son, Facts

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• As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

  Rodney King

  Stress, Anger, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

  Rodney King

  Letting Go, Mean, Sleep

  "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.

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• God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Integrity, May, Sin

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• You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

  Hugh Laurie

  Teenage, Self, Years

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• He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Sublime, Enemy, Trespassing

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• We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

  Stephen Leacock

  Thinking, Laughing, Noble

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islands, White, Special

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