"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

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"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

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"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

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"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

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"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

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"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."

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""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

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"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

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"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

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"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

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"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

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"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."

Aesop, Greek Author

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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

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"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."

Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist

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"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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