Quotes About Forgiveness

Women will cut men a lot of slack for sins made in the name of their beauty.

A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much.

I betrayed you," I said, so quietly that I hardly knew it was my own voice. It felt like a lie even though I told the truth. He stood perfectly still. A siren sounded, long and low. "You can't get home. They've stopped the boat," he said. Strangely, I did not think about Mother, or what I would tell her tomorrow. It seemed that tomorrow would never come,(…)

You see, my brother-in-law can never remember you, but he can never forget me

You needn't be afraid of them. When you see them, just remember that you, too, like all other human beings, were once a monster in one of your previous lives. Neither hate them nor do battle with them, just continue on your way.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

La tenancière m'offrit une assiettée d'amandes grillées et me promit sa meilleure fille pour fêter ma majorité. – Sans rancune, petit? – Sans rancune, madame. – Comme c'est touchant... Et puis, arrête de me broder avec tes « madame », ça me constipe.

Si tu pars du principe que ton pire ennemi est celui-là, même qui tente semer la haine dans ton coeur, tu auras connu la moitié du bonheur.

Ognuno inchiodato al legno della sua esistenza a scontare la colpa che non commise e quella che commise.

After announcing the scheme, Abbott sought with some charm the absolution of his startled party. "Sometimes," he said, "it is better to ask forgiveness rather than permission.

The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.

In the Dharma, there is no place for guilt. Guilt is useless. It is pointless to feel bad about something in the past that we can't change. But regret? Yes. This is more useful. Do you both feel sincere regret for what you did?

We also need to think about the impact on others. When we say hurtful things we don't really mean, we can create deep wounds that can't be healed. Think of all the rifts between friends and within families, divisions that have led to a complete breakdown in the relationship, all because of a single angry outburst.

Sometimes our instinct, our negative conditioning, can be overpowering. Later we regret very much what we have done. But that is no reason to give up on yourself—the buddhas, they have not given up on you. Instead, learn from your mistake and move on. Like that.

It is pointless to feel bad about something in the past that we can't change. But regret? Yes. This is more useful.

thinking about the past, especially going over bad things that have happened in our minds again and again, serves no purpose.

we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again.

anger causes so much misery both for the person on the receiving end, as well as for the person experiencing it.

Since then I had come to learn that my unhappiness had been inflicted not by Chogyal but, unintentionally, by myself. By wallowing in my own nostalgic memories, spending so much time thinking about a relationship that had moved on, I had been needlessly carrying pain. Suffering.

Clearly she had been forgiven, but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least, lying on the fresh spring grass, their hands almost touching as he told her about Lola, this incredible Spanish girl he'd met while skiing in the Pyrenees.

She could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind. 'You could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind,' I say.

Spending your time imagining what would have been if you could have changed some little thing, some little decision in your life, is counterproductive and leaves you unhappy. Think about how you can improve for the future, but don't waste your present thinking about how you could have changed the past

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.