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.

77 quotes found

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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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We believe the one we love cannot be truly lost to us.

—Yaa GyasiNovelist

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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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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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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Healing is not linear. I keep relearning this.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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My tears are proof of my love; without love, what need is there for tears?

—FuzuliPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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There's no point in weeping. Grief won't change anything.

—Mikhail SholokhovNovelist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western 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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Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Time does not heal all. It only teaches us to live with the incurable.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We must weave threads of memory so the past does not vanish.

—Marjorie AgosínPoet & Activist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We didn’t know we were survivors. We just survived.

—Tommy OrangeAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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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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Let no one uproot the Pumpkin.

—Okot p'BitekPoet & Anthropologist

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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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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