Jane Hamilton Quotes

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

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.

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.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

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.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

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

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

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

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

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

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

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.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

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