Forgiveness

• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. 
• Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.
• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
• Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
• It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. 
• The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
• Forgiveness is a funny thing.  It warms the heart and cools the sting.
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
• If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.
• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
• Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
• He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
• There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
• Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. 
• Yes, this is what good is:  to forgive evil.  There is no other good.
• The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. 
• What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. 
• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.  If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator.  Forgiving seems almost unnatural.  Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do.  But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.
• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
• Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
• One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. 
• Forgive.  It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time.  Let go of resentment.
• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.