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the f word

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The Forgiveness Project is an increadibly moving website, project, exhibition, and film exploring global alternatives to revenge, violence, retribution, anger, and war while promoting tolerance, education, diplomacy, and peace. Can we forgive? Should we forgive? Can there be forgiveness without forgetting?

Brace yourself, there are many astonishingly painful life stories to read but there are an equal amount of profoundly inspiring people who have learned to forgive, live and love. Watch the mini movie

And these quotes used in project are obviously brilliant words to live by, as they were penned by amazing minds.

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

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. — Mahatme Gandhi

He who forgives ends the quarrel. — Anonymous

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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