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Quotes About Reconciliation

forgive me for feeling so cross and proud towards the unhappy old lady—for
~ George MacDonald
He has wronged me grievously. It is a dreadful thing to me, and more dreadful still to him, that he should have done it. He has hurt me, but he has nearly killed himself.
~ George MacDonald
Unfortunately, to the ordinary people, war and peace were not very different. The trouble with all Anglo-Scottish wars was that no one ever won them; they were always liable to break out again.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Matt Merton comes back and explains that last week's show on suicide, in which the parents watched a reenactment of their son's suicide, was a healing process for the parents, then shows a video of the parents admitting it was a healing process. (Sea Oak)
~ George Saunders
They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever—
~ George Saunders
They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever—
~ George Saunders
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.
~ George Sheehan
La mayoría de los matrimonios, la mayoría de las relaciones amorosas, logra perdurar gracias a un rosario de reconciliaciones, no siempre veraces.
~ George Steiner
If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.
~ Georgette Heyer
But not even Mrs Underhill's evident admiration reconciled him to the prospect of dining in her house. He described her as a vulgar mushroom, and wondered that his cousins should not have kept her at a proper distance.
~ Georgette Heyer
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one's self.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Stop, you boys," cried Henry. "Don't fight the minute you meet." "Well, Mike started it," shouted Benny. "I did not! You started it," shouted Mike. "Boys!" said Henry. "Stop this minute. Aren't you friends?" "We're friends
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
People who work together for years on end, they fall out, and they patch it up at the end. Its normal.
~ Glyn Johns
We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.
~ Colin Powell
Pope John Paul II was a man of peace, a friend of the Jewish nation... and worked for the historic reconciliation between the nations and for the renewal of diplomatic ties between Israel and the Vatican at the end of 1993.
~ Ariel Sharon
Part of being a former abortion clinic worker is learning how to deal with your past sin.
~ Abby Johnson
When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.
~ James Nesbitt
John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
~ Betty Williams
What's important in any working relationship or working with someone in your family is you have to start with a clean slate.
~ Erin Foster
When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.
~ Pablo Sandoval
There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.
~ Jeb Hensarling
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
~ Jeff Grubb