Quotes About Reconciliation

Reconciliation processes try to create new spaces that are safe for revisiting the experience of trauma.

A mãe teve reuniões com vãrios professores. (...) «Robert vive num mundo construído por ele. Eu sei que ele é meu filho, mas por vezes tenho a sensação de que ele veio não de mim e do meu marido, mas de algum outro lugar para onde tenta voltar (...)»".

She was magnanimous to former opponents, never retaliating against supporters of her former husband or other adversaries, personal or official.

ventured a couple of negative comments about her father, and never tried it again. "It was

The conversation had gotten off on the wrong foot and she knew it.

We beg delinquents for our life.

There are many dear friends and loved ones that I hurt along the way.

how we proceed with repair depends on how we remember

What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.

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

Nelson Mandela escribió: «Cuando salí hacia el portón que me llevaría a la libertad, supe que, si no dejaba mi amargura y mi odio atrás, seguiría encarcelado».

It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. —NELSON MANDELA

Layton once said that "a poet is deeply conflicted and it is in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. It doesn't set the world in order, it doesn't really change anything. It is just a kind of harbor, it's the place of reconciliation, the kiss of peace.

Symbols of national loyalty are neither militant nor ideological, but consist in peaceful images of the homeland, of the place where we belong. National loyalties, therefore, aid reconciliation between classes, interests, and faiths

He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, with his long absence, his infrequent superficial letters? And if she did say it - would he defend himself? Would he give reasons, try to explain how meaningless every endeavour seemed to him? No. For then she would start crying again, he would tell her to stop being silly, she would ask for details, and he would tell her to mind her own business.

He wanted his noises to touch the others; friendly noises could melt hostility.

The love story... is the tribute the lover must pay to the world in order to be reconciled with it.

He thought America's character would be defined by how it treated its vanquished enemies, and he wanted to graduate from bitter wartime grievances to the forgiving posture of peace.

Despite Grant's best efforts at Appomattox, the breach of the Civil War never healed but became deeply embedded in American political culture.

He immediately had Rawlins summon stretcher bearers, but was dismayed when they removed the Union officer and overlooked the Confederate private. "Take this Confederate, too," he said. "Take them both together; the war is over between them." Grant seemed sickened by the carnage. "Let's get away from this dreadful place," he told an officer. "I suppose this work is part of the devil that is left in us all.

Summing up Grant's career, Frederick Douglass wrote: "In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior.

Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference.

There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it.