Do you agree with this Mahatma Gandhi quote: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”?
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Absolutely. To be able to forgive is the sign of disciplined mind. It is easy to hold on to your anger, to plot revenge, to feel sorry for yourself. It is difficult to forgive and forget.
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Yes. It's tough when someone hurts you to just let it go and move on. It's far easier to be angry and expect revenge/apology/whatever.
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Yeah that sounds good. Makes sense. He was a good man, but just like all the other people that tried to do something good in the world, he was assassinated :( Isn't that ironic?
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I agree :)
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I do. Anger is of the ego The ego makes the weak feel strong Truly strong don't need ego
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no. i appreciate gandhi very much ~ but i feel this is a flawed statement. i believe everyone is both weak and strong in some respect. and forgiveness is difficult to do, but its is not reflective of "weakness" or "strength". it is a reflection of openheartedness and openmindedness and compassion. so i believe the more accurate statement is that forgiveness is the attribute of the compassionate. it requires surrendering the ego to the light of god.
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Yes, I totally agree. The weak are the ones who dwell on slights and are angry. Only the strong can truly forgive. :-D
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Yes....
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Yeah I do. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to forgive. I had to go through it recently and it was one of the hardest moments of my life. I agree with the quote!
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no... I consider myself of a powerful mind but not strong. I have no problem forgiving unless your deffinition of forgivness is letting a damaging person remain in your life. once they have not influence on my life I have no desire for their suffering. even people like sadam who I believe need to die I do not wish it to be painful.
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Much of the time. But sometimes not. People will sometimes forgive out of weakness because they just don't want to deal with whatever the issue is anymore.
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i totally agree. Forgiving someone is VERY hard. I have seen episodes on Oprah where some people showed the power of forgiveness. one show was where a lady ran over another persons child, they were drink or soemthing to that effect. the mother of course was devestated, but after confronting the driver and talking to her, she forgave her andthey becaame friends. If that was me, i'd had wripped that persons head off. It takes soo much to forgive, you really haev to search deep with in. Thx for the question.
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I certainly do. For some people -immature, selfish, insecure - forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
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... sounds right enough for me to agree ... __________ "Insults should be quickly and lightly scratched in the sand, while compliments should be carefully and deeply carved into great stone monuments." an old Arab proverb.
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I suppose so. I hate that bloody man he stole back India after making the most of English education p take in my eyes
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I used to be confused, too, but it's "Mahatma Ghandi". It's "Indira Gandhi". The way I remember is you always say hi to the woman.
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