My mother’s face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.[τὸ ἐκείνῳ ἁμαρτηθὲνἐκεῖ κατάλιπε ὅπου ἡ ἁμαρτία ὑπέστη.]
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.
Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I’m the lowest grade.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to contemn![Wenn es an allem etwas zu verzeihen gibt, so gibt es auch an allem etwas zu verachten!]
If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn’t forgive her for being hurt.
I did not know until you walked away you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Forgiving others could be difficult, but forgiving yourself can sometimes feel impossible.
