“Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.”

“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist

“"To forgive oneself"—? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.”

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author

“There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude…we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.”

Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker

“There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.”

Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist

“With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

“When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

“We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic