It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.
A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.
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