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

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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