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Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out. ↗

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

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it is real, all of it, he thought, the wars, the intrigues, the great bloody game, and me in the center of it... me, the dwarf, the monster, the one they scorned and laughed at, but now i hold it all, the power, the city, the girl. this was what i was made for, and gods forgive me, but i do love it... and her. and her." (tyrion lannister) ↗

— George R.R. Martin

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Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind ↗

— Muhaya Haji Mohamad

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I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

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Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

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Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform." Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time. ↗

— Alice Munro

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In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an ever stronger person to forgive. ↗

— Vanessa Guzman

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