Forgiving Is Not Forgetting Quotes

#1. When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.

Shampa Sharma

#2. I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

Eva Longoria

#3. Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

Bob Rae

#4. And I thought - not for the first time - that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.

Jodi Picoult

#5. When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like.

Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

#6. Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

#7. FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

Anuj

#8. South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

Nelson Mandela

#9. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.

Shellie Palmer

#10. Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Ben Okri

#11. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

Nelson Mandela

#12. Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.

Ann Voskamp

#13. Was it you that killed me, or did I kill you?" Abel answered. "I don't remember anymore; here we are, together, like before."

"Now I know that you have truly forgiven me," Cain said, "because forgetting is forgiving. I, too, will try to forget.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

Claudia Black

#15. Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Mary McLeod Bethune

#16. Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering
remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Desmond Tutu

#17. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

C. JoyBell C.

#18. Morning not only forgives, it forgets.

Marty Rubin

#19. We are entirely dependent upon the spirit of inspiration, and if there ever was a time, since Adam occupied the Garden of Eden, when the Spirit of God was more needed than at the present time, I am not aware of it.

Lorenzo Snow

#20. ...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#21. God's forgiving and forgetting heart doesn't document every mistake we commit.

Euginia Herlihy

#22. I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.

Drake

#23. A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

Ban Ki-moon

#24. I so want his wardrobe,' Eve sighed. 'Is that shallow, or just strange?'
'Don't sell yourself short. It's both.' Shane said.

Rachel Caine

#25. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.

Frank Sonnenberg

#26. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

Joyce Rachelle

#27. Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

Celia Cruz

#28. Forgetting hurts the heart, but forgiving rejuvenates it.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Facts and intuition are false opposites.
Leaders should listen to their intuition and instincts and allow others to do the same because they are sub-conscious, fast ways of processing, aggregating and then accessing evidence to reach a swift conclusion.
Trust your gut.

Phil Dourado

#30. Besides, his father and uncles were old, and the old lords were like that; they took their dusty feuds to the grave, forgetting nothing and forgiving less.

George R R Martin

#31. Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

Paulo Coelho

#32. Everything that's alive has an etheric counterpart.

Yvette LeBlanc

#33. [ ... ]love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it, is there?

Kobo Abe

#34. Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

Dag Hammarskjold

#35. With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.

Tim Curry

#36. Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.
(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Jim Harrison