Quotes About Reconciliation

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Suddenly she felt guilty for not working harder to forgive him and repair the damage, but he hadn't either. They had been two lost people, treading water for seven years, after the ship went down. Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. Country. Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

I'm sorry, Mother," she said quietly. "I didn't realize you cared about him that much." She suddenly understood what she had done and what it had cost her mother. She felt guilty for the first time.

what would have happened if he had come back

Et alors que je les regardais faire, que je rencontrais leurs regards, que je touchais leurs mains, j'ai cessé d'avoir peur pour ne plus ressentir qu'une profonde humilité face à leur chaleur et à leur humanité. J'eus soudain honte de la mauvaise opinion que j'avais eue d'eux des années durant. Ce fut un des moments les plus marquants de ma vie.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Morelli shook his battered head. "I don't apologize for what I do—people've got to take it or leave it—but I don't mind telling you I'm sorry I lost my noodle and cracked down on you and I hope it ain't bothering you much and if there's anything I can do to square it I—

He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again.

If wronged once, always forgive. Twice, forgive again, keeping in mind that even a repentant man can repeat a mistake. " Only after two transgressions, Munenori advised, should punitive action be taken.

The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.

Puller felt his hand begin to shake as he read through the thoughts of his mother from three decades before. Problems in the marriage. Problems with him. Problems with her. But . . . she was willing to work things out.

Because you're trying to take something away from yourself that was taken away from them without their consent." "I've

Americans have had to work through the meaning of their Civil War in its rightful place- in the politics of memory. And as long as we have a politics of race in America, we will have a politics of Civil War Memory

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening. He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

teach you how to accept your nonacceptance

By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards—and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous—but the honestest fellow.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

When you and your brother are friends, his doings are indifferent to you. When you have quarrelled, all his outgoings and incomings you know, as if you were his spy.

Abraham Lincoln, the closing lines of his first inaugural. It was an appeal for peace; he prayed that all of us would finally be moved by 'the better angels of our nature.

So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.