It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Stephen Leacock

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Tyler Perry

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
Patty Duke

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
Tatum O'Neal

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
Heinrich Heine

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
Kingsley Amis

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Orlando A. Battista

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Bernard Baruch

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Laurence Stern