A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.  ~G.K. Chesterton

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness

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

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.~Lewis B. Smedes

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.~Roberto Assagioli