Forgiveness Quotes

If you can’t forgive and move on, then your feelings will grow and fester and they will eat you alive.

Forgive others often yourself never.

Syrus

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

Peter von Winter

To err is human to forgive divine.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Michel de Montaigne

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Life is hard. Next to what?

Anonymous

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

Stephen Sondheim

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

Mary Webb

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Mae West

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Michael Apostolius

Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.

Martial

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

Antoinette Deshouliere

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

Henry Ward Beecher

Good to forgive Best to forget.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Anonymous

Bear and forbear.

Epictetus

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

Bible

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

Anonymous

He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.

Anonymous

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Aesop

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Sir Thomas Browne

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

G.K. Chesterton

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

And be content with such things as ye have.

Bible

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Marcus Aurelius

We are never content with our lot.

Jean de La Fontaine

Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

Anonymous

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Lillian Hellman

He is poor who does not feel content.

Japanese Proverb

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

Corra May Harris

So many of us define ourselves by what we have what we wear what kind of house we live in and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

William Matthews

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

Cicero

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

William Hazlitt

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

Gamaliel Bradford

I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.

Edgar Watson Howe

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

Contentment is worth more than riches.

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

Hafez

If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.

Sa'di

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

Nicolas Boileau

My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

William Shakespeare

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Marlene Dietrich

I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

True affluence is not needing anything.

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