Power to Change - Apology and Forgiveness Part 1

Power to Change - Apology and Forgiveness Part 1

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha   

 “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

 “Those who control their anger and are forgiving towards people; Allah loves the good.”
― Qur’an, 3: 134

 “They avoid gross sins and vice, and when angered they forgive.”
― Quran 42:37

 “Who takes vengeance or bears a grudge acts like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.”
 — Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 9.4

"Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
― Matthew 5:23-24
 

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
―Ephesians 4:31-32

“Oh 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. ”
― St. Francis of Assisi’s prayer

 “Where there is forgiveness, there God resides
— Kabir, page 137

 “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else but you are the one who gets burned”
 — The Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
— The Buddha

 “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

 “These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one's self.
To mind one's own business.
Not to want to manage other people's affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one's dignity.
To choose always the hardest.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living