What power has love but forgiveness?
– William Carlos Williams.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
– Paul Boese.
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 made clean again.
— Dag Hammarskjold.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-Mahatma Gandhi
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we really want to love
we must learn how to forgive
– Mother Teresa
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If I cannot forgive myself
For all the blunders
That I have made
Over the years,
Then how can I proceed?
How can I ever
Dream perfection-dreams?
Move, I must, forward.
Fly, I must, upward.
Dive, I must, inward,
To be once more
What I truly am
And shall forever remain.
– Sri Chinmoy
“Father, forgive them;
for they know not what they do. ”
Luke 23