Quotes About Reconciliation

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

My business is to forgive others.

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

We sit on the floor in front of his oscillating fan and talk sci-fi, and I am thinking how strange this is that I should be sitting peacefully with Henry Stagg in his bedroom when only a week or so ago he punched me in the face for no reason whatsoever.

Riga. My father is still angry with you

the window for hours. He wouldn't talk to anyone. The players whispered that Joe and his first wife, Dorothy, had been dating, trying to get back together

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

we forgive those who trespass

In his new adaptation of the Chinese sacred text Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell offers a provocative take on Lao-tzu's approach to leadership: I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

I ran across the following thought that I JUST LOVE & I thought of you...... I do not know where we will sit at the final banquet, but I suspect who will sit beside us - on our right will sit the person whom we have harmed the most. On our left will sit the person who has done the greatest evil to us. We will be seated between grace received and grace required.

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to.

Mercer held out a closed hand, palm up. 'Before I forget it, I have something of yours here.' He opened his fingers. On his hand rested the mutilated spider, but with its snipped-off legs restored. 'Thanks.' Isidore accepted the spider.

McFeyffe, Hamilton said, you're going to have to forgive me. Why? Because I'm going to do something fruitless and futile. Because, even though I realize it's useless, I'm going to kick the living Jesus out of you.

She had been hurt too when they pulled apart; one day, perhaps, they'd be able to talk about it....

was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. • WILLIAM BLAKE •

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration

Pensando na morte de seu irmão - e no ataque mortal do pai - me peguei comparando aquele sorriso seu com um curativo sobre uma ferida. (p.75)

However much you may have hated me, why don't you come back so we can continue with our linear, logical life like all the other couples who hate each other?

Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods