Top 100 To Forgive And Forget Quotes
#1. My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!
Brody Jenner
#2. You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget.
Kevin Hearne
#3. To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.
J.B. Priestley
#4. As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.
Frederick Lenz
#5. It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#6. From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it's difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren.
Ann Leckie
#8. Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.
Thomas Jefferson
#9. If we learn to forgive and forget, peace will be there.
Debasish Mridha
#10. There was a man of the cloth - Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church - who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit - fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle - who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest.
Julie Otsuka
#12. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.
Bell Hooks
#13. Burdens of life become lighter when your heart is filled with love and we learn to forgive and forget with profound kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth
#15. The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.
Matthew Henry
#16. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Joyce Cary
#17. But really, the term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.
Meg Cabot
#18. 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
#19. In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#20. Never forget that when connections get destroyed by means of bad communication, it's good communication that resolves them. Don't be shy to say "I am sorry" and "please forgive me". That's a good communication!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.
Rick Warren
#22. So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Always remember the gospel, so you won't forget that God will not expect something of you that He won't both empower you to obey and forgive you for not obeying.
Matt Chandler
#24. Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
#25. In order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.
Jodi Picoult
#26. You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again.
Anonymous
#27. Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.
Tamora Pierce
#29. When you have a chance to forgive, think of all you'll gain and forget all you've lost.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#30. The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.
Lauren Conrad
#31. If you could forget and forgive what happened."
He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.
Leo Tolstoy
#32. Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into
her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But she did not forgive and she did not forget.
Sherry Thomas
#33. Or I can forgive and forget ... Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... we always have a choice.
M.L. Stedman
#34. Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.
Tupac Shakur
#35. To refresh our lives, let us forget and forgive and begin anew.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Dance to forget yourself.
Dance to forgive
Let your body and your mind agree
If only for this breathe right now
Dance like you're free
Courtney C. Stevens
#37. I can forgive and forget ... it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.
M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans
#38. I no longer complain about taking too much cream. I have made so many errors that unless I forgive myself and forget I will be in a helpless purple situation of self recrimination. The scorpio tail comes round to sting.
Hannah Weiner
#39. He changed me...here" He tapped his chest. "I'm not sure I can be the same person I used to be."
"I'm not asking you for that, man. I'm not asking you to forget or even forgive. I'm telling you to find a way to get around it, not over it.
Ann Simko
#40. One does not have to forgive if forgiveness is not one of his virtues. But one can forget and never come back to the issue.
Boris Zubry
#41. The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.
Vu Tran
#42. This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate ... the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss ... this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.
Steve Maraboli
#43. We forgive and forget just to give another chance to the person we love or think we love.
M. Howson
#44. I'm trying to forget just as much as you probably are. Look, I'm not stupid. I know that we can never be the same. But I still wouldn't change anything. It was the plan and it worked. You're not dead and that's worth it to me. Maybe you'll forgive me someday.
James Dashner
#45. I think one should forgive and remember ... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.
Faith Baldwin
#46. We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.
Dillon Burroughs
#47. I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole from me. But I realize now I can't steal it back and I'm done spending every day trying to.
Katja Millay
#48. Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#49. Life is too short. I forgive and forget. I have not time to get mad or hate.
Debasish Mridha
#50. We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace.
Debasish Mridha
#51. I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
Odette Annable
#52. O God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, forgive me for becoming so enthralled with my surroundings that I forget to look up and gaze into Thy face. The radiance of Thy face is all I really need. Amen.
A.W. Tozer
#53. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.
Odette Annable
#54. Take care of yourself,forgive and forget the past and live the future you seek to see, listen to and pay attention to your next breath,go after the desires of your heart with all your passion and intellect,and above all live the that you want to lead.
K.J. Kilton
#55. Still hurting so much today from what my prior Pastor and
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church board did to me last year, and I really want to get past that. I want and need to forgive them, to move on with my life and look forward, forget the past.
Michael Richard Stosic
#56. Accept, forgive and forget. Forgive not only the people who hurt us, but also forgive ourselves, accepting whatever is the outcome, then forget the wrongs, learn from them and move on. Holding on to the guilt and pain would just make life miserable for us.
Kcat Yarza
#57. We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
Sarah Bernhardt
#58. I put you through hell and then I only made it worse, all the mistakes I made trying to get you back.'
'I've forgiven you.'
'Forgive, yes. Understand, yes. Forget, no.
Kelley Armstrong
#59. The term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes.
Meg Cabot
#60. Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!
Jeffree Star
#61. Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.
Wil Zeus
#63. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.
Helen Oyeyemi
#64. I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
Tony Campolo
#65. I will never remember anything
I know how to forget and forgive
Life has turned into miracle,now
I know, when I am dead
Nobody would remember me,
they all will forget
I am an immortal soul
I will forgive them, all
Shapeshifting in wind of change.
Santosh Kalwar
#66. First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.
David Jeremiah
#67. A bruised and wounded soul can forgive and try to forget the pain but the hardest part is to trust again. It takes more time to trust again.
Euginia Herlihy
#68. Let us make this world a house of love and peace.
Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice.
Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice.
Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#69. There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
George A. Romero
#70. 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
#71. Be someone that is easy for anyone to forgive and hard for anyone to forget.
Robert J. Braathe
#72. Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don't think too long. Relax. Toss a coin. Forgive, but don't forget. To thine own self be true. Living
Brian Christian
#73. This we prescribe, though no physician;
Deep malice makes too deep incision;
Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed;
Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
William Shakespeare
#74. Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. Don't be shy to say "I am sorry"; Never feel too big to say "Please forgive me"; Don't think it's unnecessary to say "thank you"; Never feel bad to admit "I am wrong"! That's a good tactics is communication!
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. Give me strength to forgive. Because he who forgives is the greatest. And I know I cannot forget.
Mesa Selimovic
#77. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Sylvia Plath
#78. One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at the speed of light!
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. I've tried so hard to use those two annoying F words; forgive and forget. It never works.
Calia Read
#80. Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.
Lee Child
#81. I wish I could tell you what happened, but I can't. Someday I will, but I can't right now and I need you to accept that. Please. And I'm not apologizing to you,because I don't want you to forget what happened and you should never forgive me for it. EVER. Never make excuses for me, Sky.
Colleen Hoover
#82. Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.
Stuart Wilde
#83. When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance - for ourselves, as well as others - over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we've been hurt to the core. But that doesn't mean we ever forget.
Sharon Salzberg
#84. Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Forget and forgive your past. Focus on your future, but never forget to act at the present moment.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Forgive people to forget..life is short enjoy and use every seconds for good way
MK PRINCE
#87. You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.
Demetri Martin
#88. I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.
Sue Grafton
#89. 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
#90. It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan Paton
#91. I'd been preparing myself to apologize. Forgive and forget, as Mom says. "Fuck you," I said.
Tara Kelly
#92. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
#93. Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response - never to forgive and never to forget.
Frank Herbert
#94. Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.
Ghostface Killah
#95. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,
Scott Hildreth
#96. You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
Judy Blume
#97. Forgive and forget.If there's anything that I've learnt this far, it's to forgive people - Balqis
Diyar Harraz
#98. Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit like a spider, for years, waiting for the chance to strike. They never forget and seldom forgive.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#99. The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
Charles Caleb Colton
#100. To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again.
Henrietta Newton Martin
