Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. – Nikos Kazantzakis
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on. – Novak Djokovic
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. – The Bible 1 John 1:9
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. – Dag Hammarskjold
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It’s become my lifeline – forgive the pun. – Nigel Hamilton
A woman who can’t forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. – E. W. Howe
If I didn’t forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don’t forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. – Gerry Adams
The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. – Iyanla Vanzant
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. – Jean de la Bruyere
When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others. – Jennifer O’Neill
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. – Lewis B. Smedes
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one. – Lewis Grizzard
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one. – Lewis Grizzard
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. – Maximilien Robespierre
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. – Johann Kaspar Lavater
People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both. – Jonathan Carroll
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne
He’d forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all. – Jennifer Grant
I’ve been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because… maybe… that’s the thing I’ve been searching for. – Mary J. Blige
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there’s nobody there to forgive them. – Kingsley Amis
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter’s rights of the heart. – James Hilton
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. – Marianne Williamson
It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies – because you never know when you’ll have to work with them. – Lana Turner