To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
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.'
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.