A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lee

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
Edgar Watson Howe

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

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.
Jim Bakker

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?
Sarah Jessica Parker

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
Wallis Simpson

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
Charles Olson

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost