Forgiveness

Quotes about forgiveness from interviews: forgiving others and oneself, and why forgiveness sets us free.

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• Reconciliation Through Kindness — John Legend
  Sometimes you just need to be kind and show that you care
• Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela (1994)
  The autobiography of a man who spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid and emerged not as an avenger but as a president prepared to build reconciliation with his former enemies.
• Schindler's List — Steven Spielberg (1993)
  A German businessman who starts out simply profiting from the war and cheap Jewish labor gradually, and never smoothly, crosses over into risking everything to save lives the system had already marked for destruction.
• Being Yourself — Elton John
  I learned to accept myself as I am. That was the most important journey of my life.
• The Shawshank Redemption — Frank Darabont (1994)
  A wrongly convicted banker spends two decades inside a brutal prison keeping an inner freedom intact and quietly preparing his own way out — less a jailbreak than an act of sustained dignity.
• Eighty-Four Years of Wisdom — Quincy Jones
  Don't carry a grudge. Forgiveness is the key to freedom.
• Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
  A film about a man carrying guilt so overwhelming that even other people's sincere forgiveness cannot lift it.
• Beauty of Life — Quincy Jones
  The beauty of life is that we cannot undo the past, but we can understand it and change.
• All About My Mother — Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
  A melodrama about women rebuilding themselves and each other after loss — and about motherhood as a form that turns out to be larger than biology or gender.
• Justice Over Faith — Richard Dawkins
  Ethics doesn't require belief in God; morality must be based on reason and compassion
• Forgiving Yourself — Richard Branson
  I've made plenty of mistakes. It's important to forgive yourself and learn. Life doesn't have to be perfect.
• Forgiveness Rises from the Abyss — Nelson Mandela
  As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
• Forgiveness Transforms — Desmond Tutu
  The ability to forgive is not weakness but the greatest strength.
• Truth and Reconciliation — Desmond Tutu
  We cannot move forward unless the past is acknowledged and healed.
• Love, Laughter and Tears — Desmond Tutu
  Justice cannot be achieved through hatred; justice requires forgiveness.
• A Last Conversation About Bread — Paul McCartney
  In my last conversation with John, we talked about baking bread. I'm so glad we got back to that relationship.
• Why We All Marry the Wrong Person — Alain de Botton
  To love is charity — a generosity of interpretation, the slack we all need cut for us, because our behavior is tricky.
• Anger and Forgiveness — Martha Nussbaum
  We need to imagine better ways to live that are not based on anger and retribution
• Truth Hidden Behind Medals — Simona Biles
  I thought America hated me. I stopped breathing. But I learned that you must be honest with yourself before you can be honest with others.
• Beauty in Disorder — Marilynne Robinson
  The beauty of Scripture is that it doesn't hide human evil. It looks directly at it and believes in redemption