Norman Cousins on Forgivness
Friday, October 26th, 2007Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
- Thomas Fuller
Men are apt to offend (’tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
- William Congreve
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings