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Dare to Forgive:
Forgiveness overrules hatred. Forgiveness is not only stronger; it is much more clever and wise than vengeance or retribution.
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027 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Forgiving improves your life by improving your physical and emotional health and by increasing your chances of living longer.
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037 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Loss does not cure loss. Rather than closure, revenge gives deceptive satisfaction that can’t free us from the angry, aching place we inhabit.
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038 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Making a deal. That’s the business equivalent of letting go of anger and resentment. It’s better than suing, most of the time.
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041 |
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Dare to Forgive:
The real reason people do not forgive more often is not that revenge makes more sense than forgiveness. Revenge is frankly more fun.
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042 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Most of us disregard a vital truth: When you hate, you are the person who gets hurt.
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055 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Forgiveness originates in the part of each of us that yearns more for an end to foolish suffering and death than for the specious satisfaction of getting even.
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059 |
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Dare to Forgive:
Premature forgiveness only leads to anger later on. As unpleasant as the pain can be, you must feel it through and through before you can move on.
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075 |
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Dare to Forgive:
In isolation, people work themselves up into fits of vengeful rage. They make bad, impulsive decisions because they read situations incorrectly.
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076 |
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Dare to Forgive:
One of the best prods to forgiveness is putting yourself in the shoes of the one(s) who hurt you. Hard to do!
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082 |
