Rosa Parks Quotes

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

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

Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

About love, don't be a silent partner. And be gentle with your anger.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Love happens when people forgive.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

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

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.