Quotes About Forgiveness

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

We aren't guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.

But I just want a little more time to be angry. My hands still feel jittery from fear and fury but now i'm supposed to manage forgiveness. Or else I'm the monster.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication. To be unshakeable is the mark of courage. To be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity. To forgive is the mark of strength. To govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

But if you do not learn how to love, everywhere you go you are going to suffer.

Whatever the flavor of our anger – irritability, rage, stubbornness, belligerence, or sullen silence – it can all be transformed into compassion and understanding. Those we live with will certainly benefit from that, and so will we.

Almost every estrangement can be mended if one person involved is willing and able to forgive.

May Ted and Josie continue to give, forgive, and receive more joy with each passing day. May they have the love of their family, the support of their friends, long life, good health, and everlasting love.

trust takes years to build seconds to break and forever to repair

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Imagine guilt as an iron band fastened around something that is growing: the trunk of a tree, the neck of a child. Sooner or later, one of two things must happen. If the band does not break, the growing thing will be deformed. "Commit yourself to change, Lixia, to living in the present, to making and remaking who you are. Do the best you can. Understand what you do. And do not feel guilty.

More shouts of laughter greeted this, and off the girls ran, laughing and talking and forgetting Wanda and her hundred dresses. Forgetting until tomorrow and the next day and the next, when Peggy, seeing her coming to school, would remember and ask her about the hundred dresses. For now Peggy seemed to think a day was lost if she had not had some fun with Wanda, winning the approving laughter of the girls.

Wha-ja-do? Break your doll?

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.

As for infidelities, he said, if you don't find out about them at the right moment they're of no use: when you're in love you forgive everything. For infidelities to have their real impact some lovelessness has to develop first. And he went on like that, piling up painful remarks about the blindness of people in love.

Today I feel some uneasiness in recalling how much I suffered, I have no sympathy for myself of that time.

What a waste it would be, I said to myself, to ruin our story by leaving too much space for ill feelings: ill feelings are inevitable, but the essential thing is to keep them in check.