Quotes About Forgiveness

Why have you chosen to spare me?" "I want us to be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ what is your word? Friends." "Psychotic rapists don't have friends." "I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered." "Ha.

The point is, we all come to forks in the road, and we all make our choices and live with them, for good or ill..[spoilers left out]...You came to a fork in the road, and you made the best choice you could at the time, under the circumstances you were faced with and using the information you had. You have nothing to beat yourself up over. -Tony Marino

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

I just want to tell her that I'm sorry," Wallow says softly. He doesn't know that I'm awake. He's talking to himself, or maybe to the ocean. There's not a trace of fear in his voice. And it's clear then that Wallow is a better brother than I could ever hope to be.

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, "What was I thinking," breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, "What was I learning?

It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them

I'm not angry anymore. I'm just really disappointed about who you turned out to be.

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.

Life is short. Be silly. Have fun. Love the people who treat you right, forget the ones who don't. Regret nothing. Believe everything happens for a purpose… and seek that purpose!

Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.

If someone has harmed you, don't wish them ill -- wish for them to gain clarity! Hope that they will soon be able to fully see the pain they have caused you, as well as new ways of being and doing.

View life with kindness and insight. Don't beat yourself up for things that happened in the past. Though some past situations may make you wonder why you did the things you did, stop to breathe and ask the better question: 'What did I learn?

But if you find yourself smarting from an unfortunate comment in a usually loving friendship, I have three words for you: Get over it. Mention it if you need to, work it out, reaffirm your friendship, then get over it and go on. You know, the Lord didn't mess up. He's placed you and me smack dab in the middle of chaotic relationships with imperfect people because the bumpy road of loving and being loved leaves us richer as a result.

Forgiveness is not to condone or minimize the awfulness of an atrocity or wrong. It is to recognize its ghastliness but to choose to acknowledge the essential humanity of the perpetrator and to give that perpetrator the possibility of making a new beginning. It is an act of much hope and not despair.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

We all make choices, Miss Szarka. And if it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to, we can spend a lifetime blaming ourselves or blaming others. Either way, we've spent a lifetime blaming instead of a lifetime doing other things...I think the possibilities for second chances are everywhere if we just look hard enough." Eve

life wasn't about keeping score—but

I don't hold on grudges, you know. They're like expired milk in the fridge.

I learned the hard way that you can't spend your whole life facing the wrong way. You'll never see what's ahead of you if all you ever see are ghosts of your past.