I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.
Lewis B. Smedes

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta

To err is human; to forgive, in frequent.
Franklin P. Adams

Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Lawana Blackwell

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.
Lewis B. Smedes

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese