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Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Happiness Self Forgiveness
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
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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