Who Can Forgive Quotes

#1. Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short.
If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can do is try to forgive them.

Brian K. Vaughan

#2. If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.

Krishna Dharma

#3. Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.

Lori Palatnik

#4. I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

Chaim Herzog

#5. If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can so is try to forgive them.

Brian K. Vaughan

#6. People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

Alain De Botton

#7. A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

Anuj

#8. I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

George Bernard Shaw

#9. The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

Louise Hay

#10. What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Piolo Pascual

#12. My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business - Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

#13. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

Suzanne Collins

#14. God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.

Patrick Madrid

#15. My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country
Doctor, that is a different case.

Andrew Jackson

#16. Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Dwight L. Moody

#17. The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

Mother Teresa

#18. In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.

Dominique Moceanu

#19. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

#20. The only way to free ourselves from the destructive influence of counterfeit gods is to turn back to the true one. The living God, who revealed himself both at Mount Sinai and on the Cross, is the only Lord who, if you find him, can truly fulfill you, and, if you fail him, can truly forgive you.

Timothy Keller

#21. When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?

Leslie Ludy

#22. I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

Susane Colasanti

#23. Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian]

Karen Maitland

#24. Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?
She had shaken her head slowly.
Men and women who can't get over their past ... That's what ghosts are.

Stephen King

#25. Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#26. You can forget what people said and did, but you never forget how they made you feel. You can forgive the people who hurt you, but you will remember what they taught you.

J.C. Reed

#27. But sometimes it's easier to love someone who has flaws you can forgive in return for their forgiving yours.

Mark Lawrence

#28. Sometimes we need to forgive those who have hurt us and ourselves so that one can move on

Robin Maddison

#29. Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

Deepak Chopra

#30. People think that forgiveness is for the person who wronged you, but it's not. Because when we allow things to bottle up inside of us and we don't release it, or forgive the people who may have caused hurt to come in our lives, we just become bitter. And God can't use bitter people.

Vanessa Miller

#31. No ... no ... We never forgive those we can understand ... We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

George Horace Lorimer

#33. Forgiveness is the real strength in us all. Once we give up the need to be right, we discover freedom. Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness comes from our highest self. Once we can open our hearts and forgive, we move to the next level of who truly are.

John Dowd Jr.

#34. Yes. I love you. I should have told you sooner, Lina. Not that I deserve to have your love after what I did to you. I wasn't there for you when you needed me. And I promised you I wouldn't let you down again. I'm not a guy who goes back on his promises. Can you ever forgive me for that?

Jaci Burton

#35. Forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish.

Malcolm Gladwell

#36. A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

E.W. Howe

#37. 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

#38. Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

Caroline Myss

#39. Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Philip Yancey

#40. There are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.

George Eliot

#41. God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#42. You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#43. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Emily Giffin

#44. How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.

Andrew White

#45. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he'll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.

Brent Weeks

#46. Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you - it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.

Deborah King

#47. Through His Atonement, He heals not only the transgressor, but He also heals the innocent who suffer because of those transgressions. As the innocent exercise faith in the Savior and in His Atonement and forgive the transgressor, they too can be healed.

C. Scott Grow

#48. That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.

Louise Hay

#49. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Charles Bukowski

#50. People who forgive can - and should - also be people who confront. What is not confessed can't be forgiven.

Henry Cloud

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

Paulo Coelho

#52. After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

Jodi Picoult

#53. Maybe right now you can't see how to overcome an obstacle, accomplish your dreams, or forgive someone who hurt you, but understand that when you get there God will hand you the ticket. He purchased it two thousand years ago on a cross at Calvary.

Joel Osteen

#54. There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Dalai Lama

#55. I can't forgive a woman who is irresponsible and dishonest

Lee Taemin

#56. Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

Naomie Harris

#57. I like to pretend I'm a prisoner kept in a dark, dank cell who's only allowed fifteen minutes a day in the yard, so that I can remember to really enjoy looking up.

Matthew Quick

#58. We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.

Ed Dobson

#59. He who, with strong passions, remains chaste
he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive
these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

Frederick William Robertson

#60. 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

#61. People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

Ming-Na Wen

#62. The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Margaret Mitchell

#63. Once again you ask about my wellbeing when I'm the one who just fucked you like a beast." He looked up with desolate eyes. "Can you forgive me for taking you like that? Today of all fucking days. I should've kissed you and made sweet gentle love rather than bruise you like the bastard I am.

Pepper Winters

#64. To forgive, one must love and be loved. Only those who forgive can be free. Whoever forgives is a prisoner no more.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#65. You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.

Oscar Romero

#66. 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

#67. There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

Karl Kraus

#68. I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.

Billy Graham