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== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
* 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]]
* '''Forgiveness does not [[change]] the [[past]] but it does enlarge the [[future]].'''
* '''Forgiveness does not [[change]] the [[past]] but it does enlarge the [[future]].'''
** '''To understand makes one very indulgent.'''
** '''To understand makes one very indulgent.'''
** Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, ''Corinne'' (1807), Book XVIII, Chapter V
** Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, ''Corinne'' (1807), Book XVIII, Chapter V
* '''Behold affronts and indignities which the world thinks it right never to pardon, which the Son of God endures with a Divine meekness!''' Let us cast at the feet of [[Jesus]] that false honor, that quick sense of affronts, which exaggerates every thing, and pardons nothing, and, above all, that [[devil]]ish determination in resenting injuries.
** [[Queen Elizabeth]], p. 252
* "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]]
* "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it" - [[Mark Twain]]
* "He who forgives ends the quarrel." - [[Anonymous]]
* "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - [[Mahatma Gandhi]]
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