"forgiveness"

        

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval"
...Mark Twain.

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you"
...Lewis B. Smedes.

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
...Buddha.

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change.
Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them.
Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time"
...Sara Paddison.

"The reward of the evil is the evil thereof, but whosoever forgives and makes amends,
his reward is upon Allah"
...Qur'an 42:40.

"You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger"
...Buddha.

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind"
...Mahatma Gandhi.

"Who takes vengeance or bears a grudge acts like one who, having cut one hand while handling
a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand"
...w:Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 9.4.

"O beautiful one, one should forgive under every injury. It hath been said that the continuation of the species
is due to man being forgiving. He, indeed, is a wise and excellent person who hath conquered his wrath
and who showeth forgiveness even when insulted, oppressed, and angered by a strong person"
...Mahabharata, III: XXIX.

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me"
...Robert Frost.

"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents
and I lay them both at His feet"
...Mahatma Gandhi.

"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge
and dares to forgive an injury"
...Edward Chapin.

"Where there is forgiveness there is God Himself"
...Kabir.

"Forgiveness is virtue; forgiveness is sacrifice, forgiveness is the Vedas, forgiveness is the Shruti"
...Mahabharata, III: XXIX.

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