Quotes About Forgiving And Forgetting

#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. I'm leaking brain lubricant.

Bill Watterson

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

Jodi Picoult

#6. You have to see your own face one day. A long time ago it unnerved me, but now it's kind of cute.

Karen Swart

#7. 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

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

Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

#9. 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

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

Nelson Mandela

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

Euginia Herlihy

#21. I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

Miles Davis

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. But by the grace of God I am what I am."

~1 Corinthians 15:10

"Paul was alluding here to his honest response to those who were constantly criticizing, slandering, and defaming him and his character. This was the 'thorn' in his side!!!

R. Alan Woods

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

Celia Cruz

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

Debasish Mridha

#27. A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

Victor Hugo

#28. Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.

Zach Braff

#29. 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

#30. Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends.

William Davenant

#31. One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

Umberto Eco

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Dag Hammarskjold

#34. 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