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

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

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.