Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

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

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

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

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Forgiving is good for your health.

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

There is no sin but the lack of love.

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

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond

So many people say, "I'm a good person!" Like, why are you a good person? To be a good person you have to actively be good.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

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.