Quotes About Reconciliation

Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

You have to make peace with life

Survival, though, means more than going on. It means understanding the past and finding a way to subdue it, to reconcile it, to overcome it.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

when the Internet made it possible, I was in touch with her daughter, Marylyn, who was living in a mobile home in Utah with a companion. She was the grandmother of eighteen children and the great-grandmother of twenty-two. In what she said online, Marylyn had nothing but kind words to say about both parents, upsetting my conviction, after reading Mary's memoir, that Daddy was the bad guy.

Those raised poorly end up hating their parents. They hate them until they realize... they could not help themselves. Just like us, they fall short. By honoring our parents, we honor the humanity in ourselves, and learn to not only forgive them, but also ourselves for having judged them so harshly.

An apology is such an expression that shows, not only greatness and insight; whereas, it also protects from breaking the family ties, and friendly contacts.

Just saying sorry cannot compensate whom you hurt, damage, or insult with your words or actions, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Sowing bullets and waiting for peace, fail to match that.

To forgive is a pragmatic and dynamic spiritual remedy for the burden of frustration and revenge since it purifies and beauties heart and mind; whereas, it eases and fragrances life as well.

If you knew the old me, maybe you could forgive the current me.

What else should she have expected? That he'd be here, waiting with open arms for her forever? No. She had hurt him. And he had done what any sane person would do. And now it was too late.

He had been far away from home, and something terrible had happened … and it was that something which had taken their lives and blown them apart. She understood too, now, after all these years, that Brian hadn't meant to hurt her.