Quotes About Reconciliation

John F. Kennedy says: 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.' I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don't leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!

To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

He is the one who should apologize," he said to the foreman. "He broke down our door and sat on our fire.

I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I'd spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That's the difference between you and me, Tom. I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.

People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.

I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.

We'd go to bed furious with each other, and then she'd wake me in the middle of the night and come and lie on my bed and we'd talk for hours, about nothing and everything, and she'd let me touch the scars on her stomach—the scars from where they cut me out of her.

I wanted to say, 'Your face has been taken by another, so I've forgotten the malice in your eyes and the bitterness of your mouth.

You don't speak to him for eighteen years, and you still share a whistle? Froi whispered. Nothing wrong with a whistle. Froi chuckled.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.

But they hadn't seen the expression on Adam's face that day. Forgiveness just wasn't an option, not in this case. Anyway, that really wasn't the point. She didn't want forgiveness. All Leonie ever wanted was for Adam to know that she'd never meant to hurt him, and if she managed that, it would be enough.

A great day in the annals of two ancient nations, Egypt and Israel, whose sons met in battle five times, fighting and falling…. It is thanks to our fallen heroes that we could have reached this day.

Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

Never judge a person in the first degree of his/her bad actions or says, being a smart leader, you must give him/her the opportunity to come back to his conscience, in order to shed credible light on the beauty of the facts.

After the Republican National Convention, we may need group therapy or marriage counseling to reunite.

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

There is only one antidote—to find again the Bridegroom and beg His forgiveness. He will forgive. He is love, and He is truth. He will forgive everything.

I began to find it more important to forgive my enemy on the day I found out that I am my enemy.

Redemption restores rather than obliterates creation.

Knight, still furious about the image thirty years later, was a man acutely attuned to the ravages of shame. Had he done something shameful before he'd fled to the forest? He insisted that he had not.