#forgive

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone ↗

— James Dashner

#alone #breakup #broken #day #felt

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#inspirational #motivational #forgiveness

When you get everything aligned, when love welcomes the longing, accepts it, learns to live with it, you make love. ↗

— Anne Calhoun

#anne-calhoun #marissa #unforgiven #love

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#forgiveness #growing-up #life-lessons #age

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#love #family

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. ↗

— Confucius

#grudges #forgiveness

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#forgiveness

You'll betray me then I'll forgive you again. ↗

— Toba Beta

#forgiveness

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another. ↗