Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

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

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

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

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

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

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.