Quotes About Forgiveness

So you see, he says softly, we are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Each person has this choice to make about how to live with the past, this dignity, this inviolable right.

You are such a young and childish country, believing that one can better understand the injuries of the past by wallowing in them and analyzing their causes. You do not know enough to understand that the only way to heal a wound is to leave it alone. To let sleeping dogs lie, as it were, rather than enthusiastically kicking them as

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does this is true, the word that sick in her throat was not save by shame.

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

The past is past. And better it remain so.

Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours.... You can only clean up your side of the street.

I told you the truth at the bridge. I don't have a good excuse. Blame it on a bad mood." Tate dips his chin, and his grin shoots my heart to the ceiling. "If I tell you I'm sorry a hundred more times, will you forgive me? 'Cause I'll do it, if that's what it takes.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

You never forget the love of your life, Ainsley Douglas, no matter what he did to anger you, and no matter how much time has passed.

They all had them, dark secrets of the soul. The only way to deal with them was to live, and forget.

All cubs were welcome anytime—no shame was attached. Why were cubs to blame if their parents were impatient?

I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.

I'm a little mad. He shouldn't have said whatever he said to make you so upset. But we should try not to judge people based on one instance.

You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.

Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.

I think we all make mistakes. What matters is that we don't let our mistakes make us.

If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.

But an ugly girl? Ah, child, the world is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.

The driver's on me in an instant. She's crying and trembling. She grabs the front of my jacket and shakes me. "You crazy bitch!" she screams. "I could have killed you!" "Sorry," I say "Sorry?" she shouts. "You don't look sorry. You-" "Sorry you missed," I say. She lets go of me then. Takes a step back.

But then again, it's easy to love those who've done right by us, don't you think? A bit harder to love those who've done us wrong.

Because he deserves a second chance," Love said. "Everyone does. My enchantress transformed the outer man to transform the inner. His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He'll find his heart again.

His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He'll find his heart again.