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  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #2
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #5
    Francis Bacon
    “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
    Francis Bacon, The Essays

  • #6
    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #7
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Stephen Richards
    “A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.”
    Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

  • #10
    Socrates
    “One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
    Socrates

  • #11
    Emma Goldman
    “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
    Emma Goldman

  • #12
    Joyce Cary
    “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
    Joyce Cary

  • #13
    William Arthur Ward
    “A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #14
    George Eliot
    “It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
    George Eliot

  • #15
    Willa Cather
    “It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?”
    Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy

  • #16
    Mark   Matthews
    “Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.”
    Mark Matthews

  • #17
    Norman Cousins
    “Life is an adventure in forgiveness”
    Norman Cousins

  • #18
    John      Piper
    “There is hope in forgiveness”
    John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God

  • #19
    Adlai E. Stevenson II
    “I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
    Adlai E. Stevenson II



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