Quotes About Reconciliation

My eyes meet his eyes. "You were a jerk," I say. His hands move to my cheeks. "I'm sorry." I pull away, but I can only go an inch before I bump into lacrosse sticks, not that I really want to go any farther. "Nope. No way. You do not get to kiss me yet." He pouts.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.

And she would weep. When he saw tears rolling down her face, he would forgive her. She was less certain whether she would forgive herself.

Catelyn had never been so glad to see the twin tower badge of House Frey.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

I think we agree, the past is over.

Spend as much time as you can before tomorrow ridding yourself of all the past, painful guilty, fearful thoughts and experiences you have had with your son.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)

Somehow, the telling of all this rinsed my mind clean and left me able to think clearly once more. By gathering and sorting my own feelings so, I was finally able to fashion a scale on which I could weigh my father's nature and find a balance between my disgust for him and an understanding of him; my guilt in the matter of his death against the debt he owed me for the manner of my life. At the finish of it, I felt free of him, and I was able to think calmly once more. Elinor

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

I believe in using words, not fists.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.