Forgiveness

Forgiveness is being able to let go of harm done. It is relinquishing a sense of entitlement, of tit-for-tat. The more we understand the person who has harmed us, their feelings and thoughts and the external pressures on them, the easier forgiveness is. (Related virtues: acceptance, mercy).
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Forgiveness
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.

  • Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
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Forgiveness
If you haven't forgiven yourself something,
how can you forgive others?
  • Author: Huerta, Dolores
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Acceptance - Forgiveness
Show me a person who has never made a mistake
and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
  • Author: Collins, Joan
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Acceptance - Forgiveness - Justice
Living well is the best revenge.
  • Author: Herbert, George
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Forgiveness
Forgive and be free.
Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
  • Author: Buddha
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Book
Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications
Published in Temple City, CA
Published in 2003
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Acceptance - Mercy - Forgiveness
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it.   It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
  • Author: Hugo, Victor
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Acceptance - Creativity - Forgiveness
With the stones we cast at them, genius build new roads for us.
  • Author: Eldridge, Paul
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Forgiveness
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
  • Author: Bergman, Ingrid
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Forgiveness
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
  • Author: Sterne
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Friendliness - Love - Respect - Tolerance - Forgiveness
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
  • Author: Balfour, Arthur James
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