Some quotations and more...

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it"
MARK TWAIN


As novelist Paul Bowles once wrote:
"...
because we don't know[when we will die], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.
Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really.
How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive your life
without it?
Perhaps four to five times more.
Perhaps not even that.
How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20.
And yet it all seems limitless. "

Sensible people are selfish.

-RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Forgiving is one of the most selfish acts, a wise human is capable of performing.