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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to read more
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. -Henry Ward Beecher.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your read more
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
