Quotes About Forgiveness

We forget in order to survive our childhoods, when we are totally dependent on our parents' goodwill; but to recover from such childhoods, we must begin by remembering-the bad and the good.

When we recognize that we are not responsible for our childhood deprivations, and that we are entitled to feel anger (but not to act on it - awareness is not a license to kill), then we are able to let go of that anger and not be controlled by it.

Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation under a blanket of forgetfulness-and not confronting it head-on. It's humiliating to remember the ways in which one demeaned oneself in order to prevent being in a mother's bad graces, the willingness to do anything in order to not be rejected, when rejection felt like death.

Anger is the first step toward emotional healing.

I do not remember many things, and for all those things I do not remember, I am grateful, because the things I do remember hurt me enough.

There is always something. That is confession's nature.

Let's just hope history forgets the snafus.

Forgive me. I'm talking politics again. I swear not to talk about politics tonight, my brother. You know how hard that is for someone who believes everything is political.

Perhaps forgiveness is overrated,

But what is more revolutionary than helping one's enemy and his kin? What is more radical than forgiveness?

Don't worry. I won't forgive you –' Bashir Ali blanched '– because there's nothing to forgive. We are both trapped, you on that side of the door and me on this. Do what they tell you to do, get it over with and go home to your children. Nothing will happen to you. Not now and not later. I give you my word.' There was a pause. 'The word of Ganesh Gaitonde.' By

From the first moment; she said; From the first moment, you forgave everything I was and did. And this, this is nothing, because you will be here always... Remember. Death us nothing.

The past is the past, and he can't make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.

La scortesia della gente ferisce solo se continuiamo a ricordarla.

A hero is not the person who fights with his enemy but who turns his enemy into his friend.

Always forgive, for it is symbol of strength and never apologise, for it is a symbol of weakness.

An apology is saying the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

Don't bury the past if you have intentions of visiting the grave on its anniversary.

Don't judge me just because you probably did the same thing.

Everybody hurts somebody somewhere.

Forgive the person who confesses his fault because it is already half redressed.

Hating people is like throwing stones at the tree which can't give you any fruit.

Let me give a tip. You can't be right with God if you are not right with others.

Mistakes will happen, but must you give them so much help?