Forgiveness is a gift of high value.
Yet it costs nothing.
Betty Smith
When a deep injury
is done us,
we never recover
until we forgive.
Alan Paton
Forgiveness is the key
to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgive all
who have offended you,
not for them,
but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson
When you forgive,
you in no way change the past
– but you sure
do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi
Forgive your enemies,
but never forget their names.
John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy,
commonly referred to by his initials JFK
as the 35th President of the United States)
As long as you don’t forgive,
who and whatever it is
will occupy a rent-free space
in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naive forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
psychiatrist and psychoanalyst)
To forgive is
to set a prisoner free
and discover
that the prisoner was you.
Louis B. Smedes
