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Forgiveness QuotesFamous Forgiveness quotes by popular authors such as Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Thomas Fuller, Alexander Chase, Epicurus, William Shakespeare and others.
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[highlight-text]Bear and forbear.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]Nothing in excess.
Solon
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[highlight-text]Groan and forget it.
Jessamyn West
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[highlight-text]Too much is unwholesome.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]Anger is a short madness.
Horace
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[highlight-text]He who limps still walks.
Stanislaw Lee
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[highlight-text]My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Get mad then get over it.
Colin Powell
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[highlight-text]It takes two to make peace.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Revenge is an inhuman word.
Seneca
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[highlight-text]Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy
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[highlight-text]Hate is not a good counselor.
Victoria Wolff
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther
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[highlight-text]The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]Good to forgive; Best to forget.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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[highlight-text]Know all and you will pardon all.
Thomas a Kempis
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[highlight-text]Hate would destroy him who hated.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Simone Weil
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[highlight-text]God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine
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[highlight-text]To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]Who understands much forgives much.
Madame de Stael
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[highlight-text]Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
Douglas V. Steere
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann
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[highlight-text]Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
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[highlight-text]Forgive others often yourself never.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
H. G. Bohn
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Whom they have injured they also hate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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[highlight-text]Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
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[highlight-text]Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
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[highlight-text]Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Contentment is worth more than riches.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Without forgiveness there's no future.
Desmond Tutu
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[highlight-text]He is well paid that is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Courage and clemency are equal virtues.
Mary Delariviere Manley
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[highlight-text]The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Health is the vital principle of bliss.
James Thomson
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[highlight-text]Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Margaret Junkin Preston
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[highlight-text]True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder
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[highlight-text]Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Saint Francis of Assisi
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[highlight-text]Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.
William Saroyan
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[highlight-text]If there's no bread cakes are very good.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Suzanne Somers
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[highlight-text]God will forgive me. That's his business.
Heinrich Heine
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
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[highlight-text]The heart has always the pardoning power.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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[highlight-text]To understand is to forgive even oneself.
Alexander Chase
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[highlight-text]Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Life may be hard but it's also wonderful.
Small Change
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[highlight-text]It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
Joyce A. Myers
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[highlight-text]Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.
Marianne Moore
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[highlight-text]One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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[highlight-text]Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
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[highlight-text]Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
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[highlight-text]Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]He has enough who is contented with little.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
Hosea Ballou
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[highlight-text]And be content with such things as ye have.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
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[highlight-text]Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
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[highlight-text]You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.
John Sheffield
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[highlight-text]Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
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[highlight-text]How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
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[highlight-text]A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
Marya Mannes
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[highlight-text]Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
Horace
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[highlight-text]We are all of us richer than we think we are.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
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[highlight-text]Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
Kin Hubbard
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[highlight-text]That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]How many things there are which I do not want.
Socrates
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[highlight-text]Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher
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[highlight-text]There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham J. Heschel
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[highlight-text]Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton
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[highlight-text]It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
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[highlight-text]There are men who are happy without knowing it.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
Peter von Winter
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[highlight-text]I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
Marcus Porcius Cato
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[highlight-text]Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
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[highlight-text]Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.
Madeleine Brent
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[highlight-text]Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.
Maurice Dametz
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[highlight-text]The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Nicolas Boileau
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[highlight-text]I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[highlight-text]Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!
Willa Cather
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[highlight-text]We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.
Latin Proverb
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[highlight-text]Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
Gerald Jampolsky
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[highlight-text]Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
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[highlight-text]He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.
Panchatantra
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[highlight-text]An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
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[highlight-text]Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.
Bill Veeck
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[highlight-text]Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
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[highlight-text]Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Robert Anthony
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[highlight-text]Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
Robert E. Lee
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[highlight-text]If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen
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[highlight-text]We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]My mother used to say 'He who angers you conquers you.'
Elizabeth Kenny
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.
George Macdonald
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[highlight-text]The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
Catherine Ponder
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[highlight-text]Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.
Harvey Fergusson
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[highlight-text]Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker
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[highlight-text]The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Kin Hubbard
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[highlight-text]We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What you really value is what you miss not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges
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[highlight-text]Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley MacLaine
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[highlight-text]Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
G. Weatherly
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[highlight-text]Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W. Clement Stone
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[highlight-text]Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
Horace Bushnell
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[highlight-text]Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.
Burmese Proverb
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[highlight-text]If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.
Greek Proverb
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[highlight-text]It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
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[highlight-text]Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!
Virgil
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[highlight-text]The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
Channing Pollock
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[highlight-text]If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.
Merry Browne
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[highlight-text]To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.
Maude Parker
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[highlight-text]Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.
Comtesse Diane
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[highlight-text]Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
Christina Baldwin
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[highlight-text]To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
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[highlight-text]Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
J. Petit-Senn
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[highlight-text]I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Eleonora Duse
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[highlight-text]The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
Rae Foley
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[highlight-text]You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
Giacomo Leopardi
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[highlight-text]For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]By putting his hand around my neck he slowly strangled himself.
Minako Ohba
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[highlight-text]I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky
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[highlight-text]There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.
Mary Jane Sherfey
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[highlight-text]Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.
Marie Corelli
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[highlight-text]Forgive all who have offended you not for them but for yourself.
Harriet Uts Nelson
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[highlight-text]Man never has what he wants because what he wants is everything.
C. F. Ramuz
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[highlight-text]I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian Saying
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[highlight-text]Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.
Dorothy Thompson
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[highlight-text]Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.
Meridel Le Sueur
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[highlight-text]The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes
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[highlight-text]It takes one person to forgive it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes
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[highlight-text]Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Joseph Jacobs
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[highlight-text]Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
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[highlight-text]It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller
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[highlight-text]The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Porter
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[highlight-text]Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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[highlight-text]We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
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[highlight-text]Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale
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[highlight-text]A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.
Mackintosh
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is a funny thing it warms the hearts and cools the sting.
Peter Allen
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward
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[highlight-text]It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper
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[highlight-text]One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat
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[highlight-text]If you haven't forgiven yourself something how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
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[highlight-text]Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.
Honore de Balzac
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[highlight-text]Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
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[highlight-text]Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
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[highlight-text]When we cannot get what we love we must love what is within our reach.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
Bible
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[highlight-text]The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.
Audre Lorde
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[highlight-text]Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
Carrie Fisher
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[highlight-text]I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.
Sydney Smith
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[highlight-text]Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.
Roy L. Smith
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[highlight-text]You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.
Helen Prejean
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[highlight-text]If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
Hermann Hesse
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[highlight-text]What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]If we get everything that we want we will soon want nothing that we get.
Vernon Luchies
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[highlight-text]Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.
Etty Hillesum
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[highlight-text]No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.
Antoinette Deshouliere
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[highlight-text]Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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[highlight-text]Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
Thomas Sprat
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[highlight-text]The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
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[highlight-text]To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
Jean Francois Regnard
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[highlight-text]Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes
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[highlight-text]Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.
Hafez
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[highlight-text]The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
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[highlight-text]Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.
Gwen Bristow
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[highlight-text]A soft refusal is not always taken but a rude one is immediately believed.
Alexander Chase
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[highlight-text]Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
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[highlight-text]Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.
Walt Whitman
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[highlight-text]He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much impossible.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Every dog has its day but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.
Winifred Gordon
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[highlight-text]Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil
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[highlight-text]It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]Thank you God for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor
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[highlight-text]The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
Moses Luzzatto
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[highlight-text]While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
Dan Millman
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[highlight-text]Once a woman has forgiven her man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
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[highlight-text]There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]There is no love without forgiveness and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill
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[highlight-text]One is as one is and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
Marya Mannes
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[highlight-text]Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
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[highlight-text]This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley
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[highlight-text]God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
Georges Duhamel
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[highlight-text]If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'Thank you ' that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
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[highlight-text]A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.
Hannah Farnham Lee
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[highlight-text]If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.
Sa'di
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[highlight-text]Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
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[highlight-text]If there is something to pardon in everything there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
Margaret Gatty
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[highlight-text]God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you'?
William Arthur Ward
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[highlight-text]He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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[highlight-text]Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Bronte
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[highlight-text]Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.
David Grayson
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[highlight-text]I've had an exciting life; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]The most imaginative people are the most credulous for them everything is possible.
Alexander Chase
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[highlight-text]When you forgive you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer
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[highlight-text]There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich
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[highlight-text]It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.
Mary Webb
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[highlight-text]There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney J. Harris
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[highlight-text]Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.
John Rothchild
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[highlight-text]The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.
Francis Schaeffer
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[highlight-text]A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
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[highlight-text]It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.
Abigail Van Buren
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[highlight-text]Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
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[highlight-text]A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
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[highlight-text]One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
William Matthews
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[highlight-text]I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it 'content.'
Lauren Bacall
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[highlight-text]If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
Rollo May
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[highlight-text]Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
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[highlight-text]How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
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[highlight-text]Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.
W. N. Rieger
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[highlight-text]Even though we can't have all we want we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson
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[highlight-text]What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
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[highlight-text]Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Robert Assaglioli
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[highlight-text]Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
Marion Woodman
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[highlight-text]More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Alexander Chase
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[highlight-text]The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
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[highlight-text]A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
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[highlight-text]Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]I know now that patriotism is not enough; I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.
Edith Cavell
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[highlight-text]Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]As long as you don't forgive who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
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[highlight-text]The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Sir Thomas Browne
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[highlight-text]No man can be satisfied with his attainment although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
Frank Swinnerton
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[highlight-text]Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W. T. Purkiser
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[highlight-text]A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.
Anne Lamott
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[highlight-text]The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[highlight-text]Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always make you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes
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[highlight-text]How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Christina Baldwin
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[highlight-text]Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
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[highlight-text]In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
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[highlight-text]You will never be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
Dr. James G. Bilkey
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[highlight-text]Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get; and what thou hast forget'est.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie ten Boom
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[highlight-text]Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown
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[highlight-text]The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
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[highlight-text]Oh my friend it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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[highlight-text]Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]One of life's gifts is that each of us no matter how tired and downtrodden finds reasons for thankfulness.
J. Robert Maskin
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[highlight-text]Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
Abraham Tucker
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[highlight-text]Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
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[highlight-text]There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
Homer
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[highlight-text]To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
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[highlight-text]I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have get be what I wanted.
Ceanne DeRohan
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[highlight-text]What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary; and second to have what is enough.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
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[highlight-text]How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Julius Charles Hare
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[highlight-text]The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
Ken Keyes
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[highlight-text]No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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[highlight-text]When a machine begins to run without human aid it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
Alexander Chase
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[highlight-text]A Christian could even give thanks for Hell because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes
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[highlight-text]Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]May we never let the things we can't have or don't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
Richard L. Evans
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[highlight-text]A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith
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[highlight-text]Nor need we power or splendor wide hall or lordly dome; the good the true the tender-these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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[highlight-text]No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
Corra May Harris
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[highlight-text]If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen
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[highlight-text]He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
Lee Segall
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[highlight-text]True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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[highlight-text]We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.
Thomas Fitzosborne
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
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[highlight-text]Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.
Joseph Fort Newton
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[highlight-text]Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?
Matthew Arnold
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[highlight-text]Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine
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[highlight-text]True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.
Eugene Kennedy
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[highlight-text]After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.
Nancy Hale
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[highlight-text]Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
Lucretius
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[highlight-text]To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
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[highlight-text]Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone Weil
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[highlight-text]Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
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[highlight-text]He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.
Francis Beaumont
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[highlight-text]I do not bring forgiveness with me nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
Chaim Herzog
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[highlight-text]To be alive to be able to see to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein
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[highlight-text]When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
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[highlight-text]Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.
Catharine Marshall
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[highlight-text]I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter
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[highlight-text]We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.
Donald Horban
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[highlight-text]One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Alexander Smith
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[highlight-text]Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams
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[highlight-text]Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
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[highlight-text]The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
Jeremy Taylor
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[highlight-text]The difficulties hardships and trials of life the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.
William Matthews
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[highlight-text]I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
Gwyn Thomas
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[highlight-text]Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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[highlight-text]The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.
Herbert Hoover
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[highlight-text]A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Pearl Bailey
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[highlight-text]I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.
Helen Alfredsson
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[highlight-text]Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir
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[highlight-text]If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
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[highlight-text]Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
William Shenstone
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[highlight-text]The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who nevertheless set aside a day of thanksgiving.
H. U. Westermayer
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[highlight-text]There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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[highlight-text]Enjoy the successes that you have and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
Patty Sheehan
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[highlight-text]The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips
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[highlight-text]Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
Oprah Winfrey
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[highlight-text]If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
Mary Todd Lincoln
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[highlight-text]There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
Pindar
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[highlight-text]How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]The tulip is among flowers what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb the other in its tail.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
Stephen Sondheim
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[highlight-text]This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death; I am alive!
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]Generally the man with a good wife or the woman with a good husband or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.
James Douglas
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[highlight-text]It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
Augusta Gregory
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[highlight-text]I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
E. E. Cummings
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[highlight-text]Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
Leo Buscaglia
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[highlight-text]I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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[highlight-text]The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.
Martial
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[highlight-text]Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.
Gamaliel Bradford
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[highlight-text]The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
William Law
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[highlight-text]For me it's not possible to forget and I don't understand people who when the love is ended can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
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[highlight-text]My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Jane Rule
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[highlight-text]Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock
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[highlight-text]Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy; its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Charlotte Bronte
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[highlight-text]I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying 'I will not forgive.' Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
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[highlight-text]We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other because of many kindnesses because of luck. ... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman
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[highlight-text]When we forgive evil we do not excuse it we do not tolerate it we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face call it what it is let its horror shock and stun and enrage us and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
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[highlight-text]God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee O God!
Heinrich Heine
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[highlight-text]Mankind by the perverse depravity of their nature esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
Francois de Fenelon
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[highlight-text]An easy thing O Power Divine To thank thee for these gifts of Thine For summer's sunshine winter's snow For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?
Thomas W. Higginson
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[highlight-text]Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease for we have been not only mentally and physically ill we have been spiritually sick.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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[highlight-text]For one mother joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.
Eileen Stukane
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[highlight-text]How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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[highlight-text]Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice; and be ye kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Bible
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[highlight-text]However mean your life is meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry we're eating pretty well. With home and health and happiness we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence God's very good to us.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared in whatever situation he is therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.
Timothy Dwight
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[highlight-text]We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third because although they took my all it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.
Matthew Henry
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[highlight-text]To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious is manly and divine.
Isaac Watts
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[highlight-text]Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me I kind of sit back and feel well if I give this enough time it'll turn out that this was good so I shan't worry about it too much.
William Gaines
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[highlight-text]Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
Robert Nathan
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[highlight-text]Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause not an individual. Keep it for intolerance injustice stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.
Olive Moore
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[highlight-text]So many of us define ourselves by what we have what we wear what kind of house we live in and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.
Linda Henley
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[highlight-text]You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance chaos to order confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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[highlight-text]O friends I pray tonight Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them now. Think gently of me; I am travel-worn My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged forgive I plead! When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight.
Belle Eugenia Smith
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[highlight-text]The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day 'What was the score?'; people take it for granted that you lost.
Elmer E. Bates
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[highlight-text]If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie