Quotes About Reconciliation

It is beyond question that in the remote future a Franco-German rapprochement might come into being and would be highly profitable to both countries, nor would France have the worse of the bargain, I dare say, but I have never spoken of it because the fruit is not yet ripe, and if you wish to know my opinion, in asking our late enemies to join with us in solemn wedlock, I consider that we should be setting out to meet a severe rebuff, and that the attempt could end only in disaster.

We pardon the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

baggage. You can get a fresh start." "Yeah. Until the brother of someone I killed sets my house on fire. No, if I have to spend my whole life watching my back, I'll do it somewhere prettier than Wyoming." He glanced at the clock, then closed his eyes. "I'm gonna crash for a few." A long minute passed

Hatred is settled anger.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

It continues to startle me, the range of political ideologies that are compatible with enthusiasm for spaceflight. Tax-and-spend liberals of the Great Society stripe, obviously—but also spending-slashing Tea Partiers, hippie peaceniks, fierce libertarians, military loyalists, and apathetics of every shade. So very many of us seem to feel that a love of human spaceflight is reconcilable with our beliefs, and we can all explain why.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

How long will it be until the two countries I love forgive each other and move on . . . I'm not even sure what there is to forgive. Something about Cuba seizing ownership of oil refineries. It's all so confusing. Why should something as ugly as oil affect friendships between nations?

As we have discovered, although on one level psychoanalysis allows us to attain higher levels of perception and self-awareness, on another level it is an exercise in becoming reconciled to the idea that we can never entirely know ourselves.

We were reconciled, of course we were; things were now too far gone between us to be broken for a Roger Rowly.

I don't want there to be bad feelings between us, Rachel." "You mean, maybe we could be friends?" "Oh, at the very least, yes. Friends. That's a start.

The soul sees the body and says: I think I know him from somewhere… The body sees the souls and says: Forgive me!

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

I say I'm Metis like it's an apology and he says, 'mmh,' like he forgives me like he's got a big heart and mine's pumping diluted blood

Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.