“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
- St. Augustine
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
- Paul Boese
“Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature.”
- Epictetus
“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.”
- Isaac Friedmann
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“As long as you don’t forgive, whoever or whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.”
- Isabelle Holland
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
- C.S. Lewis
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
- Lewis B. Smedes
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
- Mark Twain
