#forgive

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about. ↗

— Michael Ende

#childhood #children-s #children-s-books #good-sense #literature

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#fear #forgiveness #gtd #laziness #lazy

I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t ask this, but knowing everything that you know, do you still want that kiss? ↗

— Daniele Lanzarotta

#mermaid #new-adult-contemporary-romance #forgiveness

Time heals the wounds of the past, Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance does lighten the scars. ↗

— Rhoendyl RCruz

#truth-of-life #forgiveness

There are three things that robots cannot do," wrote Maxon. Then beneath that on the page he wrote three dots, indented. Beside the first dot he wrote "Show preference without reason (LOVE)" and then "Doubt rational decisions (REGRET)" and finally "Trust data from a previously unreliable source (FORGIVE). ↗

— Lydia Netzer

#love #regret #robots #forgiveness

He taught me to cry, to love, to forgive. He taught me that sometimes truths are complicated, woven deeper than we could ever imagine. He taught me to let go. To hold on. And that what's real... is all that will ever matter. ↗

— Katie Klein

#forgiveness

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#hope #forgiveness

Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion. Of forgiveness. Of coming home. ↗

— Lori Wilde

#forgiveness #home #kiss #love #reunion

I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#judging #kindness #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sympathy

I remember every good thing about you. Every sweet and perfect thing. And nothing else.” He touched her chin, tipped it up to look into her wet brown eyes. Even smudged, they were gorgeous. The dawning light in them filled his heart, and healed it. “Nothing else. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#love #romance #forgiveness