Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

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

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.