Quotes for a Culture of Peace - Forgiveness

"We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."
-- Maya Angelou

"You’re only human.
Let’s break free of this gravity of judgment
And fly high on the wings of forgiveness."
-- India.Arie

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
--Marcus Aurelius

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
-- The Bible, Matthew 5:39

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
-- Charlotte Bronte

"Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you."
~ Jimmy Carter

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott

Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble.
-- Chinese proverb

"The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves."
-- Chinese proverb

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
-- Elderidge Cleaver

"I think forgiveness is an aspect of our humanity. I think a lot of as are brought up to believe that if we don't somehow forgive, whatever it is that's ailing, troubling, angering, enraging or shaming us, or getting us in any way worked up, is going to live longer without forgiveness, whether it's ourselves or others we're forgiving."
-- Robert Coles

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
-- Confucius

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
-- Dorothy Day

“teach myself to see each of us
through the lens of forgiveness
like we're stuck with each other (god forbid!)
teach myself to smile and stop and talk
to a whole other color kid
teach myself to be new in an instant
like the truth is accessible at any time
teach myself it's never really one or the other
there's a paradox in every paradigm.
-- Ani DiFranco

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