Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ― Mark Twain

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

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Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. ― C. JoyBell C.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ― bell hooks

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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

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