Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Forgiveness, Liahona, Nov 2005, 81–84.
Speech to the House of Representatives, 12 August 2005
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Forgiveness, Liahona, Nov 2005, 81–84.
“When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.”
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22
“One ought to have the moral character and tolerance to forgive people’s weaknesses.”
Bo Xilai (1949) former Politburo member of the Communist Party of China
Source: Excerpts of letter to his first wife (14 July 1975)
Aga Khan IV (1936) 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism
Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India (15 April 2003)
“We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
"Distichs" in The Poems of Goethe (1853) as translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring
Context: Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth;
Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.