Forgiveness proverbs

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◆ Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

- Henri J.M. Nouwen99

◆ Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

- Thomas Stephen Szasz99

◆ Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ 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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.99

◆ Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

- Bruce Lee99

◆ Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

- Lex Luger99

◆ Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

- Marianne Williamson99

◆ Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

- Joan Lunden99

◆ Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.99

◆ When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

- Bernard Meltzer99

◆ We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

- T. D. Jakes99

◆ You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

- Maya Angelou99

◆ Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde99