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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ↗

— William Blake

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

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Forgiveness is God's command. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Forgiveness means letting go of the past. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

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One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend. ↗

— James Payn

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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

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Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

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