Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

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.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

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

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

Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And ... well ... I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us ... I want you to be happy

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

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.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.