“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
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“We forgive so long as we love.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.”
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
“Forgiveness does not mean that we will cease to hurt. The wounds are deep, and we may hurt for a very long time. Just because we continue to experience emotional pain does not mean that we failed to forgive.”
Richard Foster
“Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers.”
Harley King
“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
Pierre Corneille