Can't Forgive Quotes

• My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Mistake, Being Different

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• You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Forgiveness, Mean

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• A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

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• If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that the way it happens is "not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zechariah 4:6). This means that certain things will not be accomplished by human strength, but only by the power of God. The Holy Spirit will enable us to forgive even the unforgivable.

  Stormie Omartian

  Mean, Forgiving, Might

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• If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

  Robert Breault

  Forgiveness, Positivity, Forgive And Forget

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• A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Mistake, Self

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• Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy, People, Forgiving

  "Fictional character: Chris Nielsen". "What Dreams May Come", 1998.

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• ... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened." pg 100 Meredith to Vlad

  Heather Brewer

  People, Mad, Forgiving

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• If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?

  E. C. Myers

  Forgiving, Forgive Yourself, Can't Forgive

  E. C. Myers (2016). “Fair Coin”, p.109, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

  George A. Romero

  Thinking, Objectivity, Years

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• Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wall, Healing, Past

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Forgiving, Rebound

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• But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grief, People, Forgiving

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• If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.

  Napoleon Hill

  Forgiving, Forgiven, Can't Forgive

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

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• I can't forgive a woman who is irresponsible and dishonest

  Lee Taemin

  Forgiving, Can't Forgive, Irresponsible

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• God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiving, Trying, And Love

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Mistake, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

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• When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Idols, People

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.83, Penguin

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Reality, Order, People

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• I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, People, Forgiving

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• "I don't like this," he said. "I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg? I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want."

  Rachel Caine

  Sorry, Knowing, Forgive Me

  "Fall of Night". Book by Rachel Caine, April 24, 2013.

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