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Quotes About Reconciliation

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
~ T. S. Eliot
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
~ Orson Scott Card
I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
~ Kim Campbell
The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?
~ Unknown
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
~ Octavio Paz
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
~ Miroslav Volf
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
~ Nelson Mandela
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
~ Jose Eduardo dos Santos
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
~ Joseph Addison
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
~ Errol Flynn
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
~ Mark Twain
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
~ Louis XIV
Every time I try to move on with my life, memories of you keep haunting me. Since you've already forgiven me! What can I do to forgive myself?
~ Unknown
I'm here again, a thousand miles away from you. A broken mess, just scattered pieces of who I am. I tried so hard. I thought I could do this on my own, but I've lost so much along the way. When I see your face, I know I'm finally yours. I find everything I thought I lost before. You call my name, I come to you in pieces so you can make me whole. I've come undone, but you make sense of who I am. I'm like puzzle pieces in your hand.
~ Unknown
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
~ John Sheffield
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the road of love.
~ Ahmed Mayouf
Getting even doesn't help a relationship heal. If you're feeling pain, don't take action that creates even more pain. Don't try to cover darkness with darkness. Find the light. Act out of love. Do something that will enable you to move forward towards a more fulfilling reality.
~ Unknown
Letting go of the past and beginning again, isn't forgetting the pain that was caused. It simply forgiving, moving on, living and loving again. To hold onto the hurt is to deprive yourself and someone else of a beautiful relationship.
~ Unknown
Broken trust and anger will close a heart until honesty and love is once again found.
~ Unknown
Proverbs 10:12 NIV; Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
~ Bible
I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.
~ Simone Elkeles
Don't let the sun go down on an unhealed heart.
~ Unknown
But it was not right that settlements were torched and destroyed when the inhabitants had nothing to do with the blinkered obsessions of some of my people.
~ Unknown