Oscar Wilde on forgiveness
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
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Every woman is a rebel.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Repentance and forgiveness both require courage and strength.
Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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