“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
“One does not have to forgive if forgiveness is not one of his virtues. But one can forget and never come back to the issue.”
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ”
“A woman forgives but never forgets, A man forgets but never forgives”
“We deliberately forget because forgetting is a blessing. On both an emotional level and a spiritual level, forgetting is a natural part of the human experience and a natural function of the human brain. It is a feature, not a bug, one that saves us from being owned by our memories. Can a world that never forgets be a world that truly forgives?”
“If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...”