Loss of Pet Quotes

For anyone who has ever lost a dear pet, here are some quotes to ease the pain. I dedicate this to Fa, I and Fre.

A pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered.
Lacie Petitto

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Ben Williams

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
John Galsworthy

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
St. Francis of Assisi.

A home without a cat — and a well fed, well petted and properly revered cat —
may be a home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Mark Twain

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash.
That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less
of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder

Agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Elliot

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanual Kant

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
-Chief Seattle

It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone.
Gary Kowalski, Author of The Souls of Animals

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
Sigmund Freud


If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.
Pam Brown


Agreeable friends-they asks no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Elliot

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot.

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No heaven will not ever Heaven be, unless my cats are there to welcome me.
Anonymous.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France

No one loves you unconditionally as your beloved pet.
Cynthia S. Dobesh.

Grief is so painfully real, regardless of its origin. The love of, and attachment to, an animal friend can equal that of human relationships. Likewise, the loss of an animal can be just as devastating.
Rev. Joel L. Morgan

If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very few people.
James Thurber

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe

Old men miss many dogs.
Steve Allen

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.
Mary Carolyn Davies

And if I go, while you are still here...
Know that I still live on,
Vibrating to a different measure,
Behind a thin veil that you cannot see through.
You will not see me, so you must have faith.
I will wait there for the time when we can soar together again, both aware of each other.
Until then, live your life to the fullest.
And when you need me, just whisper my name in your heart,
...I will be there.

Autumn Quotes

Fall is here! There is nothing quite like the beauty of autumn. Here are some quotes to wrap around you as the weather gets a little crisper and the days get shorter.

Maria



Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold.
A Children's Song of the 1880's

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
Eric Sloane

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

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Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
Hal Borland

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
Carol Bishop Hipps

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
Nova Bair

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

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Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence

The wind-blown leaves turn
Dancing the golden sunlight
across the tired floor.
Matt Dimmic

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
Edwin Way Teale

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then,
and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a
sense of sadness and departure.
Thomas Wolfe

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel Hawthorne


Splitting dry kindling
on a damp November day -
wind-chimes tinkling.
Michael P. Garofalo, Cuttings

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
Rose G. Kingsley

Once more the liberal year laughs out
O'er richer stores than gems or gold:
Once more with harvest song and shout
Is nature's boldest triumph told.
John Greenleaf Whittier

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
Sue Grafton

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne


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October is a symphony of permanence and change.
Bonaro W. Overstreet

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
Helen Hunt

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Bronte

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly
changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
Henry Beston, Northern Farm


There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel Hawthorne


Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz

Mother Teresa Quotes

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.


Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.


Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.


Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.


Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.


Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.


Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.


Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.


God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.


Good works are links that form a chain of love.


I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.


I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.


I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.


I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.


I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.


If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.


Intense love does not measure, it just gives.


It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.


It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.


It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.


It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.


Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.


Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.


Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.


Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.


Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.


Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.


Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.


Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.


Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.


Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.


Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.


Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.


Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.


One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.



If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.


If you judge people, you have no time to love them.


Peace begins with a smile.


Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.


Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.


The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.


The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.


The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.


The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.


The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.


The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.


There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.


There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.


There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.


There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.


We are all pencils in the hand of God.


We can do no great things, only small things with great love.


We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.


We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.



We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.


We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Margaret Mead Quotes

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist. Born in 1901, she died in NYC in 1978. She was both respected and controversial. An adademic, a writer. Here are some of her most popular quotes




Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.




Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.



There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves.



Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.



We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.




Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.



Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.



You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.



We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.



If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.



Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.




I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw.



I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.




Women have an important contribution to make.



I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?'






Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Inspirational Quote of the Week

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

Apology Quotes

Apology, apology.....one of the hardest words in the English language. Here are a couple of sites that have great apology quotes. Also, consider reading my article, The Masterful Apology.

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ~Dan Heist


Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. ~Author Unknown


Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson


In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence


True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865


Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann


An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown


An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston


The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach


Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough


It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper


If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine


For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown


Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake


True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye


You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
G. K. Chesterton


Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Kimberly Johnson




The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
John Milton




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Forgiveness Quotes

Here are some of the best forgiveness quotes that I could find. True forgiveness is tough business. These quotes are great reminders of the importance of forgiveness.


I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain


Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich


It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi


To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)


Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese


You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem


Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann


Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson


He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert


There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris


Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast, 1930


Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller


Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes


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


Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli


One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P. Jones


Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin


To err is human, to forgive, divine.
~ Alexander Pope



To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
~ Lewis B. Smedes


Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.
~ Unknown


A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
~ Unknown


I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher


Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
~ Harriet Nelson


To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
~ Robert Muller


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Paul Boese

To forgive and not to forget is like burying the hatchet with the handle sticking out.
~ Unknown


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

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
~ Gerald Jampolsky


We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
~ Louise Hay


Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy


There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
~ Bryant H. McGill

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. - Ausonius

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? - Dolores Huerta

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. - John Sheffield

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

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. - Lawana Blackwell

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. Lawana Blackwell

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins


Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. Real Live Preacher

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. Real Live Preacher

No one forgives with more grace and love than a child. - Real Live Preacher

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. - Stuart's Law of Retroaction


Pray you now, forget and forgive. - William Shakespeare




The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-- Mahatma Gandhi

Know all and you will pardon all. --Thomas A’Kempis

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies
--Voltaire

A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals. --Stephen Crosby

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.—Unknown

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

The offender never pardons. --George Herbert

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.--George Herbert

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.—Unknown

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. -- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur

A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. --Hannah More

Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. --Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me. --Sara Paddison

Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past. --Unknown

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. -Sholem Asch

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --William A. Ward

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. --Lewis B. Smedes

We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore. –Francois, Duc 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

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
--Lord Chesterfield

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. --Logan Pearsall Smith

Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. --Martha Kilpatrick

Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen. --Martha Kilpatrick

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. --Anonymous

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
--Mark Twain


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-- Abraham Lincoln

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. --Jean Paul Richter

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. --William Blake

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. --Antonio Porchia

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

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. --Mahatma Gandhi

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. --Ellen Goodman

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. --Robert Quillen

Forgiveness is the final form of love. --Reinhold Niebuhr

One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown

We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. --Martha Kilpatrick

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. --George MacDonald

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. - Lance Morrow