Best Forgiveness Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...”

“Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.”

“I took his poor, broken head into my lap and cradled it.”

“Lord help my poor soul.”

“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be. You’re reminded that your feelings are not who you are, but how you felt at that moment. Your bad choices defined you yesterday, but they are not who you are today. Your future doesn’t have to travel the same path with the same people. You can start over. You don’t have to apologize to people that won’t listen. You don’t have to justify your feelings or actions, during a difficult time in your life. You don’t have to put up with people that are insecure and want you to fail. All you have to do is walk forward with a positive outlook, and trust that God has a plan that is greater than the sorrow you left behind. The people of quality that were meant to be in your life won’t need you to explain the beauty of your heart. They already understand what being human is----a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.”

“He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.”

“It is always better to say, to do / Since a mistake can be forgiven / A wasted chance is never recovered”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“A wise man once said that the best definition of insanity was performing the same action over and over again, expecting different results.”

“Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.”

“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”

“I thought that I needed your apology to”

“Fuck You Poem #45”

“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.”

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”

“So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?”

“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”

“A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.”

“Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.”

“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”

“If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.”

“The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.”

“Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.”

“Truth is beauty”

“Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.”

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”

“Justice does not mean revenge, but balance restored without hatred.”

“We are taught to fear being forgotten, but some things deserve to be let go. That’s not erasure—it’s release.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

“He who seeks revenge digs two graves; he who walks away builds a palace of peace.”