#forgiveness

...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem 'Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA') ↗

— Philip Gross

#poetry #wales #forgiveness

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? ↗

— Mike Norton

#christian #citizen #communism #compassion #country

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#evil #forgiveness #human-unconsciousness #light #power

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. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#vampire #forgiveness

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#forgiveness

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#forgiveness #forgiveness-quotes #grace #j-b-mcgee #jb-mcgee

Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina. ↗

— Brian K. Vaughan

#forgiveness

If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ... ↗

— James Brault

#forgiveness #humor #forgiveness

I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a bitch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt about it. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#forgiveness #god #humor #religion #sin

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. ↗

— Simone Weil

#women #forgiveness