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Quotes About Reconciliation

Hate is a wounded heart.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another's pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.
~ David W. Earle
When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Kun nainen huutaa, että tekosi oli anteeksiantamaton, hän on jo alkanut antaa anteeksi.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
O, espíritu débil, egoísta, indigno, que aún podía soñar con una unión y felicidad terrenales depués de haber agraviado con tan amargas e injustas palabras el profundo amor que por él sentía Beatrice.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It may be remarked, however, that, of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one — none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance — to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Forgiveness of self is all forgivenesses starts
~ Neal Donald Walsch
Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.
~ Neal Shusterman
The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do it sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.
~ Neal Shusterman
One apology is enough," the scythe told the boy. "Especially when it's genuine.
~ Neal Shusterman
And she will restore to him his soul.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.
~ Neal Shusterman
Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds. As long as remorse is sincere, and one is willing to make recompense, there is no purpose to suffering.
~ Neal Shusterman
The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.
~ Neal Shusterman
But we People of Chance do believe in people of second chance.
~ Neal Shusterman
The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking glass. I can't unbreak. The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.
~ Neal Shusterman
You'll be fine, Citra. You'll be back with Scythe Curie in no time—but you won't forget what happened today. And I hope you never forgive me.
~ Neal Shusterman
All this time, Lev never realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all-forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world. By someone who once despised him. Someone like Miracolina.
~ Neal Shusterman
Yes, the Admiral is redeeming himself, and setting things right, bit by bit by bit.
~ Neal Shusterman
Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds.
~ Neal Shusterman
E poi ci sono quelli che credono che le vecchie relazioni possano essere rivissute e fatte nuove. Ma perfavore se ti senti in quel modo non chiamare non scrivere non arrivare...
~ Charles Bukowski
A first step toward satisfying that responsibility for Europeans and their descendants in North and South America would be to treat indigenous people today with respect—something that, alas, cannot yet be taken for granted. Recognizing and obeying past treaties wouldn't be a bad idea, either.
~ Charles C. Mann
Time partially reconciles us to anything.
~ Charles Lamb