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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.

Sydney Harris

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard,Abe Martin’s Broadcast, 1930

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Robert Brault

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

Nathan Croall

Yes, this is what good is:  to forgive evil.  There is no other good.

Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.

Olin Miller

Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk.  If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator.  Forgiving seems almost unnatural.  Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do.  But forgiving is love’s power to break nature’s rule.

Lewis B. Smedes

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Roberto Assagioli

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

Franklin P. Jones

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

E.H. Chapin

Forgive.  It doesn’t erase their crime but why should you do the time.  Let go of resentment.

Dodinsky