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"Doing an injury puts you below the enemy, revenging one makes you but even with him, forgiving it sets you above him." -- Benjamin Franklin "It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself." -- Maurice Maeterlinck "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) "You lose a lot of time hating people." -- Marion Anderson "You will forgive people more easily when you end your need to make them wrong." -- Brian Koslow "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive." -- Henry Ward Beecher "To for-give is to give up one perception in exchange for another. When we give up the perception of ourselves as victims we allow ourselves to be healed." -- Mary Manin Morrissey "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi "When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. Forgive yourself and move on." -- Bernie S. Siegel "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." -- Carrie Fisher "If we don’t forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole." -- Joan Borysenko "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be." -- Immaculee Ilibagiza "He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." -- George Herbert