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.
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Can you really forgive if you can't forget?
A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
I always forgive, but I never forget.
If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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.'
I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
I never forgive, but I always forget.