Famous Quotes

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

Jessamyn West on Forgiveness

More quotes about Forgiveness

• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Forgiveness

• "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Forgiveness

• "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

  John F. Kennedy on Forgiveness

• "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

  Bruce Lee on Forgiveness

• "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

  Oscar Wilde on Forgiveness

More quotes by Jessamyn West

• "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."

• "There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."

• "Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free."

• "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."

• "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."