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Forgiveness
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Forgiveness is the conscious and deliberate decision to release resentment, anger, or the desire for revenge towards someone who has wronged you, thereby freeing yourself from the emotional grip of the past hurt. It's not condoning the offense, but choosing to heal and move forward, making it profoundly meaningful as it empowers individuals to break cycles of bitterness, fostering compassion, and ultimately allowing them to cultivate healthier, more fulfilling lives and relationships.
# Forgiveness & Virtues
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Context: • Epictetus. See Gellius, Book XVII. 6
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (E)
“Bear and forbear.”
— Unknown
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“Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Laurence Sterne, sermon Joseph's History Considered
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
“The brave only know how to forgive.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, scene 3, line 131
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
“I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, Prologue
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (B)
“Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.”
— Unknown
# Forgiveness & 2007 films
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Erin Gruwell)
“An "F"? What, are ya trippin'?”
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2007 films
2000s American films
Drama films
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Margaret Campbell)
“You can't make someone want education.”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Gloria)
“Miss Gruwell, he just took my damn bag!”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Andre)
“She can't even look at me because I look like my dad.”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Erin Gruwell)
“[repeated line] All right, guys and gals, listen up!”
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# Forgiveness & 2000s American films
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Tito)
“Nobody cares what I do. Why should I bother coming to school?”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Erin Gruwell)
“Your bags are packed and you think the wine will give me a headache?”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Eva)
“My PO doesn't understand that schools are like the city and the city is just like a prison.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Andre)
“Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Jamal)
“Man, what am I DOIN' in here, man? This ol' ghetto ass class got people in here lookin' like a bad rerun of cops!”
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# Forgiveness & Drama films
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Sindy)
“During the war in Cambodia, the camps stripped away my father's dignity. He sometimes tries to hurt me and my mom. I feel like I have to protect my family.”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Gloria)
“If you look in my eyes, you'll see a lonely girl. If you like at my smile, you'll see nothing wrong. If you pull up my shirt, you'll see the bruises. What did I do to make him so mad?”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Jamal)
“At sixteen, I've seen more bodies than a mortician. Every time I step out my door I face the risk of being shot. To the rest of the world it's just another dead body on a street corner. They don't know that he was my friend.”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Eva)
“I don't even know how this war started. It's just two sides that tripped each other way back. Who cares about the history behind it? I am my father's daughter, and when they call me to testify, I will protect my own, no matter what.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Andre)
“My brother taught me what the life is for a young black man. Pimp, deal, whatever. Learn what colors to wear. Gang banners. You can sell to one corner, but you can't sell another. Learn to be quiet. The wrong word can get you popped.”
— Unknown
# Forgiveness & Gang films
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Brandy)
“Nobody ever listens to a teenager. Everybody thinks you should be happy just because you're young. They don't see the wars that we fight every single day. And one day, my war will end. And I won't die. And I will not tolerate abuse from anyone. I am strong.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Alejandro)
“I was having trouble deciding what candy I wanted. Then I heard gunshots. I looked down to see that one of my friends had blood coming from his back and his mouth. The next day I pulled down my shirt and got strapped with a gun I found in an alley outside my house.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Eva)
“In America, a girl can be crowned a princess for her beauty, and her grace. But an Aztec princess is chosen for her blood. To fight for her people as Papi and his father fought, against those who say we are less than they are, against those who say that we are not equal in beauty or blessings.”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Brandy)
“In every war, there is an enemy. I watched my mother being hlaf-beaten to death, and watched as bloodand tears streamed down her face. I felt useless and scared, and furious at the same time. I can still feel the sting of the belt on my back and my legs. One time he couldn't pay the rent. That night he stopped us on the street and pointed to the concrete. He said, "pick a spot."”
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Erin Gruwell)
“So when you're dead, you'll get respect, that what you think? [murmurs of "yeah" from the class] You know what's gonna happen when you die? You're gonna rot in the ground, and people are going to go on living, and they're going to forget all about you. And when you rot, do you think it's gonna matter whether you were an "original gangster"? You're dead. And nobody, nobody is gonna want to remember you, because all you left in the world is this. [holds up Tito's drawing]”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Erin Gruwell)
“An "F"? What, are ya trippin'?”
— Unknown
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Context: • Epictetus. See Gellius, Book XVII. 6
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (E)
“Bear and forbear.”
— Unknown
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“Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Laurence Sterne, sermon Joseph's History Considered
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
“The brave only know how to forgive.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, scene 3, line 131
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
“I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Margaret Campbell)
“You can't make someone want education.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Gloria)
“Miss Gruwell, he just took my damn bag!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, Prologue
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (B)
“Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.”
— Unknown
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Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). No. 563
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (H)
“The offender never pardons.”
— Unknown
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Context: • To understand makes one very indulgent.
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Corinne (1807), Book XVIII, Chapter V
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Corinne (1807), Book XVIII, Chapter V
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
“Tout comprendre rend tres-indulgent.”
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Context: • Forgive others often, yourself never.
• Syrus, Maxims
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
• Syrus, Maxims
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (S)
“Ignoscito sæpe alter, nunquam tibi.”
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“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (K)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (K)
“Know all and you will pardon all.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Pittacus of Mytilene, justifying his release of his captured enemy Alcaeus, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in Life of Pittacus, i. 76, citing Heraclitus as his source.
• Variants:
• Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is proof of a gentle, the other of a savage, nature.
• Pittacus, as quoted by Epictetus, citing Heraclitus
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (P)
• Variants:
• Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is proof of a gentle, the other of a savage, nature.
• Pittacus, as quoted by Epictetus, citing Heraclitus
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (P)
“Forgiveness is better than revenge.”
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Context: • He who forgives readily only invites offense.
• Corneille, Cinna, IV. 4
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (C)
• Corneille, Cinna, IV. 4
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (C)
“Qui pardonne aisément invite à l'offenser.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Andre)
“She can't even look at me because I look like my dad.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alfred Tennyson, Sea Dreams
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (T)
“The sin
That neither God nor man can well forgive.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Bayard Taylor, Poems of the Orient, Temptation of Hassan Ben Khaled, Stanza 11, line 31
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Forgiveness" (T)
“Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Erin Gruwell)
“[repeated line] All right, guys and gals, listen up!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom Writers" (Tito)
“Nobody cares what I do. Why should I bother coming to school?”
— Unknown
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