Quotes About Amends

If you really screw up, send roses.

A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.

Statements like these say to the child, "I don't like what you did, and I expect you to take care of it." We hope that later on in life, as an adult, when he does something he regrets, he'll think to himself, "What can I do to make amends—to set things right again?," rather than "What I just did proves I'm an unworthy person who deserves to be punished.

Whoever has offended another with insults or harmful words or even a serious accusation must remember to right the wrong he has done at the earliest opportunity.

Guilt is hard to live with, but it exists to help us put things right while we still have the chance.

Before we even understand what repentance is, we're instructed4 to name, out loud, the harm that we have caused.

If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends." -Luke Skywalker

Forgive me for all the things I did but mostly for the things I did not.

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

characteristic of remorse is that nothing can be done about it: that the time has passed for apology or amends.

It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I'm thinking skywriting. 'Sorry I was an asshat. Please forgive my stupid butt.

While we all need to feel accepted as we are, we also need to hear feedback—particularly when our behavior is affecting others. Being accepted isn't an escape hatch from responsibility for consequences, as we discuss in more detail in chapter 10. So, seek acceptance. And work to make amends with the kids and with the funders (and with the car).

Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...

Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.

If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.