Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

The one whose —alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization).

The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.

People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] —pratikraman' does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say —sorry' or —thank you'. There is no significance in that; the significance is of —alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan' (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively).

Wash your life with forgiveness and fill it with kindness.

Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge.

The more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him.

Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection.

Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not-squatter's rights of the heart.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Forgive, son; men are men, they needs must err.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

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

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.