Quotes About Forgiveness

Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you.

Életünk utolsó pillanataiban csak a hozzánk legközelebb állóknak lenne szabad osztozniuk. Többek között éppen ezért olyan megbocsáthatatlan a gyilkosság: er?szakosan oda tolakszik, ahol semmi keresnivalója.

Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Kids get second chances. I like to think I'm using mine.

The soul under the burden of sin cannot flee." —Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

One famous Zen master actually described spiritual practice as "one mistake after another," which is to say, one opportunity after another to learn. It is from "difficulties, mistakes, and errors" that we actually learn. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others—we are at ease with the difficulties of life.

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that he or she is a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Feel your own precious body and life. Let yourself see the way you have hurt or harmed yourself. Picture them, remember them. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this and sense that you can release these burdens. Extend forgiveness for each of them, one by one.

Forgiveness is a vow not to carry bitterness into the future...to decide to give up hope for a better past.

In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness.

Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques—he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness.

She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if by walking long enough, hard enough, she might forget.

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them

If you're looking pretty and your hair's all shiny, and there's a glint in your eye, and you say sorry like you mean it, and then kiss me on the mouth and let your hand kind of slip under my shirt so it's on my back, well, I'd sure forgive and forget.

We forgive our friends their darkness and focus on their light. Assuming the light returns. If it doesn't, well, the friend must want to sleep, so shut the door and leave them to it.

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.