Quotes About Reconciliation

I fear for your future, Kira,' said Victor. 'It's time to get reconciled to life. You won't get far with those ideas of yours.' 'That,' said Kira, 'depends on what direction I want to go.

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

Where once I'd felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.

We have our own ways, our own memories, and what has happened between all of us is hard to undo.

We will extend our arms to you[world] if you unclench your fists.

Still, in the aggregate, at least, I wanted somehow to save them—send them to school, give them a trade, drain them of the hate that had been filling their heads.

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

I wondered if DSS had anything like Step 9, where you eventually have to apologize to all the kids you've screwed over.

The moral of his story was how you never know the size of hurt that's in people's hearts, or what they're liable to do about it, given the chance.

The wounds of this ruptured nation lie open and ugly.

We are the balance of our damage and our transgressions.

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

We stalled long enough for Maggot to undisgrace himself

but the truth was, his apology meant nothing to her. In her mind, behavior was the truth, not words.

But it is not good to forget, not to face squarely, what happened

Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .

So we forgive. We send away the wrongs done to us. We let people out of the little cages we keep them in while we enjoy our feelings of moral superiority. We hand the feelings of wrong to God and refuse to ever take them back. Then we shut up and never mention the matter again. When the time comes, we put our arm around the offender and we ask him how he is.

The solution is to forgive, to let go of the bait in that trap and pull yourself free.

It is time to let them go. Open the cages, tell them you're sorry, forgive them as Jesus forgave you, and burn that trophy room to the ground.

When I look at those I want to forgive, I strive to not see them in evil terms, but to find the compassionate narrative behind their hurtful actions against me.

Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.

we need to apologize and we need to do it sincerely. Great deposits come in the sincere words:

Lincoln was right. Do I not destroy my enemy when I make them my friend?

Modern Germans were confirmed pacifists. They wanted no mention of the former wars, either directly or indirectly. By and large they were consumed with historical guilt, bleeding their anguish in rivulets of pride.