When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

- Bernard Meltzer

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

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

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

- Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

- Charles Williams

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

- Catherine the Great

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

- Bryant H. McGill

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

- Bruce Lee

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

- Billy Graham

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

- Alexander Pope

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

- Bernard Baruch

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

- bell hooks

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

- Andrea Thompson

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

- Alexander Chase

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

- Alan Paton

I never forgive, but I always forget.

- Arthur Balfour

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

- Ausonius

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

- Alice Miller

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

- Alfred Korzybski