Forgiving Quotes - page 2

... forgiving is not the same as forgetting. (Cecily von Ziegesar)
Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life. View quote
Debbie Ford
Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor. View quote
Jean Webster
Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself. View quote
Alyson Noel
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. View quote
Lewis B. Smedes
To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love. View quote
Immaculee Ilibagiza
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person. View quote
Janine Turner
I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good. View quote
Lorraine Bracco
I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really. (Tory Burch)
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path. View quote
Tara Brach
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Religion is not black and white. It's much more complicated. Spirituality is much bigger than that. God is much bigger than that. I don't believe in a wrathful God. I believe he's much more forgiving and inclusive than some religions. The things that are done in her name or his name are horrible. View quote
Susan Sarandon
The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess. View quote
Susan Sarandon
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. View quote
Freeman Dyson
Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living. View quote
Alexander Pope
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. View quote
Anthony Kiedis
For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves. View quote
Paul Auster
Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water. View quote
Sarah McLachlan
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)
Anyone who bar-codes their employees isn't likely to be the forgiving type, and the reflex of long-held obedience through hierarchy is usually enough to overcome fear of a combat death. That's how you fight wars, after all-with soldiers who are more afraid of stepping out of line than they are of dying on the battlefield. View quote
Richard Morgan
Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor. View quote
Ryan Phillippe
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead. View quote
Elton John