“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
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Charlotte Brontë
2 quotes“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
William Blake
2 quotes“The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.”
Tyler Perry
2 quotes“The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yo...”
Barbara Kingsolver
1 quote“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You...”
Cervantes
1 quote“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”
Desmond Tutu
1 quote“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
Elizabeth George
1 quote“The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.”
Elon Musk
1 quote“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”
Hillary Clinton
1 quote“Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.”
Joel Osteen
1 quote“Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!”
John Green
1 quote“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
Khalil Gibran
1 quote“And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?”