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Forgiveness quotes for a grudge you are tired of carrying
Forgiveness has a bad reputation because of how it is usually sold: as a favour to the person who hurt you, or as a decision to call the injury smaller than it was. Almost none of the older writing on the subject works that way. The oldest lines are practical and slightly cold-eyed — they are about what a grudge costs the person holding it, and about the fact that resentment is a full-time occupation nobody pays you for.
We kept this list short on purpose. Forgiveness is one of the most heavily counterfeited quote categories on the internet, and a great many of the warmest-sounding lines cannot be found in any book by the person credited. Every quotation here is traceable to a public-domain work at the locator given. Where a source disagrees with the modern consensus — Confucius, asked whether injury should be repaid with kindness, said no, repay it with justice — we left the disagreement in. It is more honest, and it is better company than agreement.
None of this requires you to resume the friendship, or to say it was fine. It asks something narrower: stop spending today on it.
7 source-cited lines
“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrongdoer.”
Meditations, VI.6“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.”
Meditations, VIII.59“A good disposition is invincible if it be genuine.”
Meditations, XI.18 (George Long translation, 1862)“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
Analects, XIV.36“The quality of mercy is not strained.”
The Merchant of Venice, IV.1“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.”
The Tempest, V.1“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
King Lear, IV.7
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A grudge answers to repetition, not to volume — one sentence you see often does more than a page you read once. Set the line that landed on a dawn sky in the Quote Studio and put it where your eyes already go.
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