Contents Introduction Sources of Forgiveness The personality of Forgiving and Less Forgiving People Forgiveness and Religiosity Impacts of Forgiveness Conclusion References Why Forgiveness is Important For the Health of Humans? Introduction Forgiveness is defined differently by different scholars and researchers. Some define it as Forgiveness is a dominant trait that is capable of freeing a person from a negative association to the source that has transgressed against a person (Thompson et al., 2005). Open forgiveness requires sympathy, benevolence, and love for the crook, together with the sacrifice of the right to revenge, anger, and indifference. Forgiveness has a double function both interpersonal and intrapersonal. Forgiveness happens in reaction to interpersonal violation and the person who forgives do...