Quotes by Authors - Page 178

How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.
Dag Hammarskjöld
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
Paramahansa Yogananda
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other because of many kindnesses because of luck. ... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman
The best proof of love is trust.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?
Margaret Gatty
One is as one is and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
Marya Mannes
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
Rae Foley
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.
Louis L'Amour
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
Carrie Fisher
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis L'Amour
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Charlotte Brontë
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour
Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.
Madeleine Brent
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Dr. Robert Anthony
My mother used to say "He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
Marion Woodman
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
Hermann Hesse
Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.
Dorothy Thompson
If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
Rollo May
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hate is not a good counselor.
Victoria Wolff
Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.
Kathleen Norris
Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
Douglas V. Steere
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher
In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
Hate would destroy him who hated.
Louis L'Amour
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy
I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!
Willa Cather
Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Robert Assaglioli
By putting his hand around my neck he slowly strangled himself.
Minako Ohba
The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.
Marianne Moore
Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.
Anonymous
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley Maclaine
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.
Audre Lorde
Any man can seek revenge it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.
Gwen Bristow
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.
Helen Prejean
Know all and you will pardon all.
Thomas à Kempis
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
Christina Baldwin
Who understands much forgives much.
Madame de Stael
Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie ten Boom
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Porter
One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Kathleen Norris
Courage and clemency are equal virtues.
Mary Delariviere Manley
As long as you don't forgive who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney J. Harris
Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.
Marie Corelli
I know now that patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.
Edith Cavell
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Brontë
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz