“No matter how good your friends are, they're going to hurt you every once in a while, and you must forgive them for that.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting...It is about letting go of another person's throat. Forgiveness does not establish relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you cert…”— Wm. Paul Young, amazon.com
“What no one ever talks about is how dangerous hope can be. Call it forgiveness with teeth.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”— Brian L. Weiss, amazon.com
“My sister told me a soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest but the one who makes you feel the most, who conducts your heart to bang the loudest, who can drag you giggling with forgiveness from the cellar they locked you in. It has always been you.”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com
“You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to…”— Jostein Gaarder, amazon.com
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent m…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.”— Richelle Mead, amazon.com
“You’re allowed to miss the people who were bullets to you, but you’re not allowed to let them shoot you again.”— Reyna Biddy, amazon.com
“No matter how much blood you get on your hands there’s always enough water for you to wash yourself clean.”— Holly Riordan, amazon.com
“One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.”— Salvador Plascencia, amazon.com
“I’m all done with hating you. It’s all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don’t hate them very long.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.com
“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. ’”— Ellen Goodman, huffingtonpost.com
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com