Quotes About Reconciliation

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

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

T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.

poverty reconciled by the law of nature is great wealth.

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

I would have don't anything for her, on that morning of reconciliation: run away from home, leave the neighborhood, sleep in farmhouses, feed on roots, descend into the sewers through the grates, never turn back, not even if it was cold, not even if it rained.

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

Il mondo è tornato al suo posto." Lei replicò sfottente: "Quale posto?

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

I wondered whether he was trying to return to a place that no longer existed. Isn't that always the case when we try to go home again?

Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again.

I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

Can't a man blaze up in anger & make a mistake, then repent & be pardoned?

I've thought a great deal about the things I'd say to you, if I saw you again, but now I don't like having said any of it. We talk and words betray us. You think of them and when you say them out loud they mean something else.

A great majority of people have got really a good capacity and capability to forgive, but only and solely to own self and that too quite readily, rapidly, regularly and repeatedly

Divorced or separated couple could unite again provided the man bows always before his spouse and vows to never fight for his fundamental rights in their married life.

Most people don't require forgiveness for own committed sins from their victims or others because they themselves are quite capable of forgiving themselves repeatedly.

The day the wife starts apologizing first to her husband, the divorce or separation cases will begin downsizing to a drastic level.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

So if we are going to find lasting solutions to difficult conflicts or external wars we find ourselves in, we first need to find our way out of the internal wars that are poisoning our thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward others. If we can't put an end to the violence within us, there is no hope for putting an end to the violence without.