Mark Twain Quotes

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

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

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

What have I to forgive and whom?

The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

Forgive everyone everything.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

The act of choosing to forgive is not easy at the moment of hurt and pain, but in the long run, it is the only way to go.

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.