Quotes About Forgiveness

You can't atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?" "The dead," she said. "And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you'd think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.

It's the fuel for everything our people have done to each other since the beginning. That's what makes peace seem impossible. How can you blame someone for wanting to kill the killer of their loved ones? How can you fault people for what they do in grief?

La clemencia engendra clemencia, igual que las masacres devienen en masacres.

Karou's glance flickered to where the corpse had been, which did not go unnoticed by Liraz. "You think I didn't learn?" the angel asked, incredulous. And with that, Karou almost dared to hope. "Did you?" she asked, and her voice was very small. Did you learn? Did you glean Ziri's soul? Dear gods and stardust, did you? Liraz started to tremble. "I don't know," she said, "I don't know." Her voice shattered, and just like that she was crying.

Había descubierto que la clemencia era capaz de una alquimia increíble: una sola gota podía diluir un lago de odio.

The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion--to close a door to one's own self and forget it was ever there.

Think of the Christians fed to the lions because they wouldn't renounce their faith. As if their god wouldn't forgive them their desire to life?..." "Are you kidding me? You're going to blame the Christians, not the Romans? How about they just don't throw them to the goddamn lions in the first place? Don't delude yourself. You're the monster here.

Can we leave the past behind us?" she asked. Could they? The question was everything. "That's an excellent place for the past," said Suheyla. "If you don't leave it there, it clutters everything up and you just keep tripping over it.

But… if they'd been embraced instead, and raised with love," he said, "they wouldn't have become tormentors.

But just because the past is blood doesn't mean the future must be, too.

Well. We are all children in the dark, here in Weep.

The function of hate […] was to stomp out compassion - to close a door in one's own self and forgot it was ever there.

The mind is good at hiding things, but there's something it cannot do: It can't erase. It can only conceal, and concealed things are not gone. They rot. They fester, they leak poisons. They ache and stink. They hiss like serpents in tall grass.

De är borta, vi kan inte såra dem längre

Barmhärtighet föder barmhärtighet, på samma sätt som blodsutgjutelse föder blodsutgjutelse Vi kan inte förvänta oss att världen blir bättre än vi gör den (s. 193).

The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.

La clemencia engendra clemencia, igual que las masacres devienen en masacres. No podemos esperar que el mundo sea mejor de lo que lo hacemos.

He still wasn't looking back, and it was enough to make her believe that he never would again.

To live in peace we have to forgive each other and ourselves, regularly.

Nggak ada yang lebih menyedihkan di dunia ini, daripada permintaan maaf yang nggak pada tempatnya.

Even when you do not feel big hearted, you can give yourself permission to act that way.

The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.