Quotes About Forgiveness

Be a little kinder than you have to, Cady, and things will be all right.

He would take up the shit lovingly, literally pick it up in his arms, and he'd say, Oh, I see it all now. I am the one who caused this shit to be so very shitty. This shit is all my fault,

At least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened

If I'd ever told my mother about what happened with the boyfriend list (which I never did), she would have said that Kim is a double-crossing backbiter. Then she'd have said I should vent my rage, forget all about Kim, get on with it and go eat some soy-based product.

We have to forget a little bit before we can forgive; when we no longer experience the pain as fresh, the insult is easier to forgive.

Be sad. Be sorry. But don't shoulder it." -We Were Liars

I bled on him and he didn't mind

Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is — a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Ting-Tang stopped moving, although he did turn his head to look at Audun. "You've really never eaten anyone?" "Never!" said Audun. "My wife would never forgive me if I did.

love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not behave improperly, it does not seek its own advantage, it is not easily provoked, it bears no grudge, delights not in evil but rejoices only in the truth. It shelters all, trusts all, always hopes, always endures. Love is everlasting.

Só às crianças e aos loucos perdoamos que sejam francos connosco: os outros, caso tenham a audácia de os imitar, arrepender-se-ão mais cedo ou mais tarde de o terem feito.

The stoic's maxim, according to which we should submit uncomplainingly to things which do not depend on ourselves, takes into account only external misfortunes, which escape our will. But how to accommodate ourselves to those which come from ourselves? If we are the source of our ills, whom are we to confront? Ourselves? We manage, luckily, to forget that we are the guilty parties, and moreover existence is tolerable only if we daily renew this lie, this act of oblivion.

I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.

Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful.

Mr. Fielding, no one can ever realize how much kindness we Indians need, we do not even realize it ourselves. But we know when it has been given. We do not forget, though we may seem to. Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.

Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …

Sonia, every dog does not bite, nor does each bee sting. For each schoolmate who insults you, there must be fifty who do not. And for every Muslim terrorist, there are thousands of us who oppose violence. Tell those who are cruel to you that in their cruelty, they are the terror. Then inform them that they are forgiven, for such forgiveness may shame some toward kindness.