Top 1200 Hard To Forgive Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

We all say things sometimes to hurt people, so it's important to forgive and have peace with others and forgive and be at peace with yourself.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you. ~Shade

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

I've had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don't know what I would do.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

God teaches you to forgive people when they mistreat you. That's something that we have to do as Christians, as children of God. It's very hard to do. It's very, very hard. When someone lies on you, when someone tries to ruin your reputation, because everyone knows what kind of person I am.

Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.