Forgiveness

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — William Blake
• To err is human, to forgive divine. — Alexander Pope , An Essay on Criticism
• To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. — Berton Averre
• He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. — Lord Herbert
• Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Sterne
• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. — Anonymous
• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury. — Anonymous
• There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life — significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. — Grenville Kleiser