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Forgiveness is being able to let go of harm done. It is relinquishing a sense of injured entitlement or tit-for-tat. Forgiveness releases us from resentment or bitterness and lets us reclaim our energy and sense of balance.


Sometimes we feel like we cannot forgive without remorse or propitiation on the part of the other person, but the power of forgiveness lies within us, not in the actions or attitudes of others. Speaking our truth and taking steps to protect ourselves from future harm can help us to move on. The more we understand the person who has harmed us, their feelings, frailties and external pressures, the easier it is to forgive.

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Forgiveness - Virtue
The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find – the best among virtues – is forgiveness.

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Selected Works of Kedar Joshi
Kedar Joshi
"Quotations – General"
http://works.bepress.com/kedar_joshi/23/
Contribution #3835


Forgiveness
It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.

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Forbearance - Grace - Insight - Mercy - Peacemaking - Forgiveness
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

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Contribution #3666


Forgiveness
The balm of Forgiveness precedes all Healing.

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A lesson learned from my Dad
Contribution #3632


Discernment - Forbearance - Grace - Idealism - Forgiveness - Justice
Forgiveness demands not Justice and Justice demands not Forgiveness.

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Contribution #3624


Acceptance - Contentment - Courage - Humility - Insight - Forgiveness
The same lesson keeps presenting itself to me. As soon as I rebound, I will be presented with the same lesson.

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from me
Contribution #3622


Adaptability - Tolerance - Forgiveness - Openness
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

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Acceptance - Balance - Compassion - Forbearance - Wisdom - Forgiveness
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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Love - Forgiveness
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

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Love - Forgiveness
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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Forgiveness
The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget.

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Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology
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Contribution #2928


Mercy - Forgiveness
God will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts; and He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Forbearing.

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Koran
The Cow 2:225
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Contribution #2691


Peacemaking - Forgiveness
Do not say, ‘I will do to him what he did to me; I will pay the man what he deserves.'

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Tanakh
Proverbs 24:29
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Contribution #2677


Peacemaking - Forgiveness
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your countrymen.

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Tanakh-Torah
Leviticus 19:18
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Contribution #2675


Humility - Forgiveness
An unrevengeful spirit, never given to rate itself too high;- such be the signs, O Indian Prince! of him whose feet are set on that fair path which leads to heavenly birth!

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The Song of Celestial
16:3
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Contribution #2674


Serenity - Forgiveness
Anger is contagious.

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Starbucks - The Way I See It #276
http://www.starbucks.com/retail/thewayiseeit_default.asp?act=0&first=51
Contribution #2604


Compassion - Joyfulness - Responsibility - Forgiveness
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

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Mercy - Forgiveness
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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speech in Washington D.C., 1865
Contribution #2445


Mercy - Forgiveness - Honesty
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

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What's God Got to Do with It?
by ed. Tim Page
Page 133 ("How to Be Saved" 1880)
Published by Steerforth Press , Hanover, NH , 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-God-Got-Ingersoll-Separation/dp/1586420968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224970457&sr=8-1
Contribution #2294


Forbearance - Forgiveness
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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Acceptance - Forgiveness
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.

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"On Revenge" -- full essay at:
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/revenge/revenge.html
Contribution #1741


Compassion - Forgiveness
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

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Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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Forgiveness
If you haven't forgiven yourself something,
how can you forgive others?

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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.

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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.

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Commencement Address at Agnes Scott College
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001784.html
Contribution #1520


Forgiveness
Forgive and be free.
Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications , Temple City, CA , 2003
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Contribution #1438


Acceptance - Creativity - Forgiveness
With the stones we cast at them, genius build new roads for us.

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Forgiveness
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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Ingrid Bergman
http://www.ealasaid.com/quotes/a-c.html
Viewed on May 14, 2008
Contribution #1280


Forgiveness
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

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Acceptance - Forgiveness - Justice
Living well is the best revenge.

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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.

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Arthur James Balfour
Viewed on April 14, 2008
Contribution #697


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.

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