Quotes About Reconciliation

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She

Did the two of you marry again? Please tell me yes. If he is my brother-in-law again, he is less likely to kill me for what I did." Bryony looked at her a moment, then leaned in and whispered in her ear. "He won't kill you. He just wants you committed to an asylum.

Woods brings a deft touch to untangling very complicated family ties! The moment Amanda defied her rich and powerful father to marry Bobby O'Leary, Big Max disowned her. Even now, with Bobby dead and Amanda mired in debt, he refuses to forgive her. But Caleb, the new man in Amanda's life, is determined to mend fences between

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them. The 20th Century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?

I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged.

Forgiveness is the easiest thing in the world, Justin thinks. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it's done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.

Learn how to forgive others, including yourself.

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

But war only ends for those who have not been in one.

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

I can't help but smile as I swipe a lone tear trailing down my cheek. How can I not be crazy in love with this guy? Time away from him didn't change anything. I can't deny him another chance. That would be denying myself.

Shelley, you think she'll take me back?" Alex asks her, his hair dangerously close to her fingers. She doesn't pull his hair . . . just pats his head gently. I feel the tears running down my cheeks at full speed. "Yeah!" Shelley yells with a goofy, gummy grin. She looks happier and more content than she's been in a long time. Both of my favorite people are with me right here; what more could I ask for?

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

I'm sure that my dreams of maleness are least partly about escaping the cultural expectation that burden femininity, but I also think they are something more complex, that the dreams recognize a truth that there is a man in me as well as a woman and that this duality is in fact part of being human, but not one that is always easy to reconcile.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.