#forgive

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains. I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#forgiveness #happy #letting-go #prayer #surrender

Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #forgiveness

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ↗

— Harriet Nelson

#offended #them #who #you #yourself

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#also #condemn #everything #pardon #something

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. ↗

— Charles Olson

#forgive me #give me #i #me #sleep

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. ↗

— Ovid

#darkness #every #fair #fault #forgiven

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ↗

— William Penn

#force #forgives #gains #laurel #love

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#easy #forgive #frees #get #journey

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. ↗

— Emo Philips

#asked #bicycle #every #every night #forgive

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#bunch #forgiven #going #killing #people