#forgive

They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever-- ↗

— George Saunders

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No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back. ↗

— André Aciman

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I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else. ↗

— Brenda Hodnett

#inspirational #forgiveness

Laughter can be a form of forgiveness—a gift, cathartic. ↗

— Briar Kit Esme

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I always forgive. They may think that makes me weak, yet really it makes me the one who is strong. ↗

— Samantha Leahy

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God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think. ↗

— Rachel Caine

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Any fool can criticise, condemn & complain but, it takes character & self control to be understanding & forgiving ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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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 Mandela

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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

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