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| Forgiveness Fortress |
| "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." --- Mignon McLaughlin "A house divided against itself cannot stand." --- Abraham Lincoln "An apology is much like a burnt offering: serve it up half cooked and you haven�t really accomplished anything." --- Laurence Shames "Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten." --- Siddhartha Gautama "As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past." --- Gerald R. Ford "Because Daniel, for man with no forgiveness in heart, life worse punishment than death." --- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid, Part II (movie, 1986) "Because I don't trust you. You're a vampire. Or is that an offensive term? Should I say 'undead American'?" --- Buffy, �Buffy the Vampire Slayer� (TV, 1997) "Before seeking revenge, first dig two graves." --- Chinese Proverb "Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes." --- Harry Emerson Fosdick "Bitterness is like letting someone you despise live rent free in your head." --- Author Unknown "Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict." --- Deborah Tannen "Don't you think that everyone looks back on their childhood with a certain amount of bitterness and regret? It doesn't have to ruin your life!." --- Ethel, On Golden Pond (movie, 1981) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." --- Paul Boese "Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship." --- Martin Luther King, Jr "Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past." --- Brian Tracy "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.... Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." --- Hannah More "Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated." --- Hosea Ballou "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place." --- Mark Twain " �I can forgive but I can not forget� is only another way of saying �I can not forgive.�" --- Henry Beecher "Kindness to others adds fragrance to our friendships, love to our labors, warmth to our words, rainbows to our relationships, and harmony to our homes." --- William Arthur Ward "Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury." --- Edwin Hubbel Chapin "Never underestimate the power of forgiveness." --- H. Jackson Brown "Once ego is unwisely committed, no cause seems too trivial for some." --- Neal A. Maxwell "Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - a thought that is love." --- Mary Manin Morrissey "Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - a thought that is love." --- Francis Maitland Balfour "Resentment is a blockade to spiritual power." --- Author Unknown "Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than soft water has on thirst." --- Walter Weckler "The light only shines in the dark." --- Kira Nerys, Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV) "The question to be asked is not how badly we were wronged, but what are we profited by our unforgiveness." --- Richard Paul Evans "Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." --- Saint Augustine "To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." --- William H. Walton Submit your favorite quotations on forgiveness, defensiveness, offensiveness, forcefullness, extremism, cooperation, bitterness, resentment, revenge, or grudges to: [email protected] |