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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Forgiveness is having given up all hope of having had a better past. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last. ↗

— Peter Krause

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...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

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It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission. ↗

— Grace Murray Hopper

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There is hope in forgiveness ↗

— John Piper

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In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart. ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

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I've tried so hard to use those two annoying F words; forgive and forget. It never works. ↗