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

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

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

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

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

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

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.