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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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ― Oscar Wilde

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You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

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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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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

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