Quotes About Reconciliation

The easiest way to forgive yourself/others or to let go, is just to realize/admit that the past/yesterday is gone forever. And so, you can't help it.

Unforgiveness/bitterness is self-destructive i.e. it's harmful to you/oneself. So, say NO to bitterness/unforgiveness and say YES to happiness/forgiveness.

Unforgivingness/bitterness is self-destructive i.e. it's harmful to oneself or rather to your own self. Thus, say NO to bitterness and unforgivingness and then say YES to happiness and forgiveness.

Until you forgive all and sundry unconditionally and from your whole heart too. You are unforgiving and never forgiving.

Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation.

Universul îmi explodeaz? în creier. Febr? insuportabil?. Sunt la un pas de Haos. Elementele se dezl?nÈ›uie. P?mântul îmi fuge de sub picioare. Cine m? va reconcilia cu lucrurile? Un punct fix, caut un punct fix, È™i nu g?sesc decât incertitudine È™i noroi, È™i un delir irepresibil.

The most difficult of problems is how to change late foes into free friends.

It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either.

At the time, I was still so shrunken into myself I couldn't quite believe what was happening. I'd never dreamed that Mom and I could ever do anything as fun as gorging on an entire cake until our bellies ached. We weren't being hysterical, or depressed. We'd just thought of something nice to do, and done it together. That kind of thing had felt wrong in Meguro, but the new apartment somehow made it possible.

Ich war glücklich. Nicht, dass ich high gewesen wäre. High zu sein ist immer nur ein partieller Zustand, für den man später die Rechnung bekommt. Eines Nachts, wie aus heiterem Himmel, holt einen der Teil, den man hinter sich gelassen zu haben glaubte, dann um so nachdrücklicher wieder ein. Mein Zustand dagegen kam den Ausdruck der "inneren Ruhe" näher.

it's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Yours and Finn's? What happened between you is like a rockslide that came out of nowhere, but maybe those rocks are not so insurmountable. Maybe they could build a bridge between you two.

rainbows apologizing for angry skies

But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Family can be a challenge," I say, "but the alternative is worse. That's why we're here, Joy. My sisters and I experienced life together but differently, and we've been apart for twenty years. What you're seeing now is a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ rapprochement.

opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption.

Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Then, suddenly, I reach out and wrap my granddad's hand in mine, like he once held mine, and for a while, the anger inside me quiets.

You can't judge people for the mistakes they make. You judge them for how they fix those mistakes.

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

TO BE "THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it" was the primary function of the Crusades,

But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: "There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them.

Redemption and judgment are inseparable; the one can come only through the other.