It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. read more

It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. The things we should have done. I think forgiving yourself is more important than forgiving anyone else and it's often the hardest.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he read more

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;
For read more

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; read more

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

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.

What if this cursed hand
Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough read more

What if this cursed hand
Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

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.