Quotes About Forgiveness

All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn't bear it, I couldn't forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.

Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

And they thought that what had happened before was past and, in order to live quietly, they placed a stone on top of it, and so, without knowing it, they continued it, they were immersed in the things of before, and we kept them inside us, too.

Estas traiciones, murmuró, si no llegas a saberlas en el momento adecuado, no sirven, cuando estás enamorado lo perdonas todo. Para que las traiciones tengan su peso efectivo, antes debe madurar un poco el desamor.

Questi tradimenti, mormorò, se uno non li viene a sapere al momento giusto non servono, quando sei innamorato perdoni tutto. Perchè i tradimenti abbiano il loro peso effettivo deve prima maturare un poco di disamore.

Maybe," she said, and I saw that I had hurt her as she had hurt me.

Por eso, por favor, si te ofendo, si te digo cosas feas, tú tápate los oídos, no quiero hacerlo y pese a todo lo hago. Por favor, por favor, ahora no me dejes, que, si no, me vengo abajo.

I want to leave nothing, my favorite key is the one that deletes.

Alguna vez te encontrarás frente a tus acciones convertidas en piedras irrevocables como ésa, me dijeron de niña al enseñarme la imagen de un dios, que ahora no recuerdo cuál era. Todo se olvida, pero se olvida sólo por un tiempo. En aquel entonces también las palabras me parecieron de piedra, sólo que de una piedra fluida y cristalina. La piedra se solidificaba al terminar cada palabra, para quedar escrita para siempre en el tiempo

Quisiera no tener memoria o convertirme en el piadoso polvo para escapar a la condena de mirarme.

Te fuiste sin llevarte nada, entregaste la casa a un hostelero sin escrúpulos. Abandonaste todo y todo se ha perdido. -Nada se ha perdido si nos hemos encontrado.-Leonora tiembla pero Max no la escucha.

Han pasado tres años, imposible revivirlo. -Para poder olvidar, primero hay que recordar.

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

I forgave him for a lot when he said that. I forgave him for almost everything.

but I couldn't see him or talk to him because he didn't love me. I couldn't be with him for one minute, not even for the weird leftover hours that nobody else wanted, like from one to three a.m. on a Wednesday." "'In Turkey? You wouldn't have a nervous breakdown. You'd give them a nervous breakdown.' I forgave him for a lot when he said that. I forgave him for almost everything.

That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

Sin is more than a stain that can be removed by a trip to the dry cleaner. It is a wound that needs to be treated, healed.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.