Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

So much shared history. So much shared pain. And now the shared hope of a new beginning.

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies.

When I get out... if I get out of here, I hope that maybe we can get back together and have more kids.

There will always be opportunities to be in love again.

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

It's important to mend ties after a fight.

We must ask people to forget about the past and to live for the future.