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“Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.”

Ifs Long Soul Waiting Rights Forgiveness Claims Forgiving Rage Settling Squatters

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”

Source: If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules

“I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.”

Want Heart Soul My Heart Forgiveness Envy Rage My Soul

Author:Paul Simon

“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”

Source: The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic

“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.”

Wish Forgiveness Anger Rage Betrayed Quarrels Courtesy Blameless

Book:Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.”

Ifs Knows Feels Persons Doe Left Circumstances Sorrow Forgiveness Angry Sorry Rage Forgiven Getting Over You Rage And Anger

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.”

Source: Healology