Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.

Hate can pardon more than love.

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

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.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

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.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

I always struggled with the idea of forgiving my enemies.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Love those you hate you.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

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.