#forgiving

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. ↗

— P. D. James

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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves. ↗

— Edward M. Hallowell

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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them. ↗

— Marvin J. Ashton

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The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love. ↗

— Stephen Richards

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When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again. ↗

— Stephen Richards

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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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