Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
—Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I’m human and stupid, too.
—Justina Chen in Return to Me
You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.
—Susan Mallery in Two of a Kind
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
—Norman Cousins
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
—Peter Ustinov
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
—Franklin P. Jones
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
—Louis Dudek
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
—Reinhold Niebuhr
The meeting of a customer and a clerk across the service counter in a store is as significant as two leaders of nations meeting over a conference table in search of peace. If peace and understanding is possible, it must occur in the moment that is present. It can occur only when relationship is real and unconditional. Relationship begins with thoughtless awareness, an openness that sees and hears with humility, and a consideration that has already forgiven all things that the mind might present as a barrier to unity.
—Booker Jones
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
—Thomas Szasz
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
—Reinhold Niebuhr
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.
—Mother Teresa
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
—Mark Twain
You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you.
—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You