Forgive Someone Quotes

#1. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

#2. We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

Leonard Cohen

#3. This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

Barry Lyga

#4. If you love someone enough, you find you can forgive them for just about anything, because living without them is more miserable than any grudge you could hold.

Linda Kage

#5. if somebody steals from you, you should forgive them because they might have been in need. If someone speaks behind your back, say nothing because you must be the bigger person. When you fall in love, give all your heart to your beloved and don't ever doubt.

Zahed Haftlang

#6. The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin - one the Savior warned against.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#7. I learn to trust someone I love..
I learn to deal with heartbreak..
I learn to forgive him who hurts.
I never stop learning in this life.

Toba Beta

#8. It's easy to forgive someone for the hurt they've caused you. Forgetting is impossible.

Tara Sivec

#9. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

Stephen Richards

#10. I went to the park and watched the pigeons bob their heads and I felt so lonely that I hoped someone would come along and stick a knife into my ribs just so they could have my empty wallet.

Matthew Quick

#11. Be someone that is easy for anyone to forgive and hard for anyone to forget.

Robert J. Braathe

#12. Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things or asking Him for good things. Maybe it's just the act of praying and feeling that there's someone up there listening that makes us feel better and less helpless.

Sarah Darer Littman

#13. It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

Sue Miller

#14. Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.

Jack Gantos

#15. To forgive is to set someone free.

Suzanne Selfors

#16. We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

Neal A. Maxwell

#17. To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

Marshall Sylver

#18. Loving someone gives them permission to do things to you because they know you'll forgive them. -Shaye

Gena Showalter

#19. You don't need a reason to forgive ... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Melissa Bank

#20. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

Stephen Richards

#21. It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

Deb Caletti

#22. I scratch at my forehead, my nervous habit when someone is really seeing me. "Well, I couldn't just walk away. I'd never be able to forgive myself if I did.

Jessica Sorensen

#23. Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

Paulo Coelho

#24. You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Alan Cohen

#25. Forgiveness is a very curious thing, in that you must not only know how to forgive; but you must also know how to accept forgiveness. Both of these aspects are equally important. When someone forgives you - believe it.

C. JoyBell C.

#26. Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

Mark Lawrence

#27. The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly.

Himmilicious

#28. The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.

Terry Eagleton

#29. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Stephen Richards

#30. The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

Veronica Roth

#31. When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate.

Winsome Campbell-Green

#32. He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend.

Tracy Guzeman

#33. Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Desmond Tutu

#34. If someone chooses not to forgive others, they are actually hurting themselves. The only way to free yourself from that is to forgive others so you can be free from your past.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#35. As I get older I've come to realize that the best way to "get even" with someone is to forgive - and then forget.

Mark Hart

#36. When someone judges you for something you can't help, try to forgive them. They don't understand. And if they keep doing it, knock their fucking teeth in.

Seanan McGuire

#37. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.

Stephen Richards

#38. We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way. This

Dallas Willard

#39. Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you.

Jack Gantos

#40. To forgive someone else,
is to forgive yourself.
Even though you do not understand this.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 6, 2016

Petra Hermans

#41. She couldn't help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than accepting someone's mistakes.

C.C. Hunter

#42. What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn't mean that you're saying it's all right now, or that you've forgotten the wrong. It just means that you've drained the boil. When you touch it, it doesn't hurt as much. That's all.

Lisa Unger

#43. She'll forgive you. That love you have for her? It runs deeper than any hate, and it takes so much more to hate someone than to love them. Hate is so exhausting. Trust me, I know.

Jewel E. Ann

#44. Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.

Hiromu Arakawa

#45. Free yourself from the poisonous and laborious burden of holding a grudge. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt, but the two rarely meet. Let go ... Sometimes, forgiveness is simply a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.

Steve Maraboli

#46. If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt
to tell you the truth.

Marshall Sylver

#47. That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.

Marian Keyes

#48. Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto.

Jay Woodman

#49. It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them

Karen Salmansohn

#50. To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

Robert Breault

#51. If someone treats you bad and they apologise for it: Forgive them.
If someone treats you bad twice and they apologise for it: Drop them.

Steven Aitchison

#52. People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Jonathan Carroll

#53. 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

#54. It doesn't make you weak to forgive someone, you know" he said. "No, but it gives people another chance to hurt you.

Jamie McGuire

#55. Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.

Christopher Paolini

#56. Dr. Buckley says that all people have things they are good at and not so good at and that if I like someone, I should appreciate his or her good points and forgive the bad. This makes sense to me. Dr. Buckley is a very logical woman.

Craig Lancaster

#57. That's the unforgivable sin, you know."
"What is?"
"Refusing to forgive someone."
"Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#58. I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

Candace Bushnell

#59. Forgiveness doesn't work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can't do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.

Anne Bishop

#60. You you think you need to forgive someone ... you got it all wrong.

Vivian Amis

#61. Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

Billy Graham

#62. Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.

Liz Johnson

#63. It's not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

Paulo Coelho

#64. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.

Deidre Huesmann

#65. How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?

PureDragonWolf

#66. It's easier to forgive someone for scaring you than for making you cry.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#67. The six people you must find today ...
Someone to love.
Someone to thank.
Someone to be grateful for.
Someone to forgive
Someone to forget
Someone to admire.

James Altucher

#68. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.

J. Raymond

#69. When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

Sharon Salzberg

#70. How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?

Piolo Pascual

#71. But maybe because sometimes a girl just really needs to snap at someone who she knows will forgive her later.

Ally Carter

#72. Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." Blanche
Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate

Neil Simon

#73. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Shirley Hazzard

#74. And loving someone doesn't mean you have to love everything they do. But it does mean you forgive them a little more often, a little more easily.

Melanie Harlow

#75. If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: "I did not deserve God's forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.

Paul Silway

#76. You shouldn't ask for forgiveness.
Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution.

Meg Howrey

#77. There is evil in everyone. The first step toward loving someone else is to recognize that evil in yourself, so you can forgive them.

Veronica Roth

#78. Just forgive her in the name of God," Amma said of Abida. "Maybe it's good for you and her that she moved on with her life. Think positively that God gave your life back not to destroy with someone who failed to keep her promise.

Anand Giridharadas

#79. Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

Stephen Richards

#80. I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Dwight L. Moody

#81. There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is ... me.

C.S. Lewis

#82. 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

#83. Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you.

Lee Ezell

#84. Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

Suzanne Collins

#85. It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

Timothy Keller

#86. Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

Gina Greenlee

#87. Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small - they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

James Anderson

#88. To forgive someone means to let him off the hook, or to cancel a debt he owes you. When you refuse to forgive someone, you still want something from that person, and even if it is revenge you want, it keeps you tied to him forever.

Henry Cloud

#89. You cannot love if you cannot forgive.

Kemi Sogunle

#90. The karmic cycle, when someone screws up really bad and hurts you. Our first instinct is to hurt back, or refuse to forgive.

Jennifer Probst

#91. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize.

Kimberly McCreight

#92. God has forgiven everything that I've ever done. If someone does something to hurt my family or me, I can always forgive them. It keeps hate and anger out of my heart.

Mark Teixeira

#93. There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

Jed Rubenfeld

#94. Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To "never avenge yourselves" (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God's blessing also on their lives.

Greg Gordon

#95. You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything ... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

Lewis B. Smedes

#96. Monks, there are two kinds of immature people: those who do not see their own mistakes as mistakes, and those who do not forgive mistakes committed by someone else. The

Anonymous

#97. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Gary Zukav

#98. If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

Adam McKay

#99. There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Cesare Pavese

#100. Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes.

Debasish Mridha