CURATED COLLECTION

The Power of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not a gift to the person who wronged you — it is a decision to stop paying their debt.

50 quotes found

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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His memory lives within me, a constant companion through every trial.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I will go on loving, even if love means tears and sorrow.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Healing is an ongoing process of remembering and integrating fractured pieces of self.

—Gloria AnzaldúaTheorist & Writer

Contemporary ERA • North America

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My mother tongue is the house I carry on my back.

—Meena AlexanderPoet & Memoirist

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.

—Emily DickinsonPoet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Where there is poetry, there is hope. Where there is beauty, there is consolation.

—Jaroslav SeifertPoet & Author

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Beauty is always a miracle. A fleeting moment that makes you forget your troubles.

—Bohumil HrabalWriter & King

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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When you are absent, my nights are long; when you are near, the day is gone too soon.

—Wallada bint al-MustakfiPoet & Caliph

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The dead are never truly dead as long as someone, somewhere, still speaks their name.

—Tomás Eloy MartínezJournalist & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.

—Chinua AchebeNovelist & Critic

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.

—Elena GarroPlaywright, Novelist & Journalist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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The Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep, but it cannot compare to your farewell, Wang Lun.

—Li BaiPoet

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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The light of hope always shines even in the darkest corners of despair.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Tears are the language of a soul in agony, beyond words, beyond reason.

—Chiung YaoNovelist

Late Modern ERA • East Asia

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The earth remembers its children, even in the silence of their departure.

—Namdeo Dhondo MahanorPoet

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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El hogar es donde el corazón se quiebra y se reconstruye una y otra vez.

—Rosario FerréNovelist, Writer & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything.

—RumiPoet & Mystic

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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