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Randall Webmaster Posts: 20849 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:53 PM "I can’t forgive my friends for dying; I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing." Logan Pearsall Smith IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:53 PM It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:57 PM David McArthur & Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:57 PM Catherine Ponder When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:58 PM Mahatma Gandhi If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 20849 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:58 PM "Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at." Sterne IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:59 PM Mahatma Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 20849 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 03:59 PM "Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." Earl of Chesterfield IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:02 PM Koran He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:03 PM Alexander Pope To err is human; to forgive, divine. IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 20849 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:04 PM "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes ------------------ "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:05 PM For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 20849 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:05 PM "Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me." ANONYMOUS IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:05 PM Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. Peter Allen IP: Logged
*DeuxAntares** Knowflake Posts: 958 From: I am where I am and it's enough. Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:06 PM This is a quote on anger, but I think it also applies to the topic of this thread: "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 *** Ami, you might want to try this forgiveness process (when you are ready): Click HERE for the Seventy Times Seven process. I have found it to be a very liberating and healing exercise. Btw, I use Cat's version (two-way forgiveness) because I believe it is the more effective one. IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:07 PM Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. Peter Allen IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 20849 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:07 PM "Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision." Randall Worley (Awesome first name! ) IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:07 PM 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 IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:08 PM 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 IP: Logged
scorpio17 Knowflake Posts: 781 From: Netherlands Registered: Dec 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:09 PM Pffff, some many.....I can't keep up. IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:09 PM 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 IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:10 PM Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:11 PM The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 20849 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:11 PM quote: Originally posted by DeuxAntares: This is a quote on anger, but I think it also applies to the topic of this thread:* "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 Buddha was one smart chubby dude. IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5260 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 19, 2011 04:13 PM Epictetus Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature IP: Logged

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