Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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