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To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

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Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person can make me denounce my past. It made me who I am today, and the choices I make from this moment on are what will ultimately define me. ↗

— Julie-Anne

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Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity. ↗

— Rebecca Johns

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But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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Nobility is not only in forgiveness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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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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