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Quotes About Forgiveness

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When Heather sees what I have done, she bursts into tears again, sobbing that it isn't my fault. My stomach is killing me. Her room isn't big enough for this much emotion. I leave without saying goodbye.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda's trick is looking hard in the mirror, Absolving herself and cracking open doors to the next place. But the girl at that school, so haunted, smashed all the reflections boarded up the windows and bolted the doors, forever stuck at 15 years old judged to serve a life sentence for what they did.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
But anyways, you let me down, Ken, but I've made my peace with it. With you. With the confused girl-child who used to be me. And Barbie? I've got nothing to say to that bitch. Not till she learns to walk flat-footed, like a real woman.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness.
~ Laurie R. King
When we get out of here," I said, "I know you're angry, but don't kill him. You can hurt him, though. Hurting is fine.
~ Laurie R. King
Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.
~ Lawrence Block
Practice the Three Breakthrough Actions: • Let go of your non-love feelings. • Hold in mind what you want. • Be positive and loving in spite of whatever happens.
~ Lawrence Crane
I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.
~ Frances Noyes Hart
Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
~ Jane Fonda
Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.
~ Darrell Bock
But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
~ Thomas Campbell
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
~ Emily Bronte
It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you'll revise that chapter someday….….. and you'll erase me completely.
~ Ranata Suzuki
Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.
~ Naveed baji
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. when you stay on the high road.
~ Joel Osteen
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
~ Mother Teresa
Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.
~ Nhat Hanh