#forgive

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you. ↗

— Libba Bray

#father #forgiveness #gemma-doyle #kartik #love

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Forgiveness is having given up all hope of having had a better past. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last. ↗

— Peter Krause

#guidance #parenthood #parenting #parents #forgiveness

...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

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It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission. ↗

— Grace Murray Hopper

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There is hope in forgiveness ↗

— John Piper

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Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#grief #healing #healing-the-past #memory #tension

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

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you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again... ~Ichigo Kurosaki ↗

— Tite Kubo

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