#forgive

So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#life #romance #forgiveness

Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may. ↗

— Liz Murray

#forgiveness

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ↗

— Josh Billings

#estimation #forgive #him #his #job

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. ↗

— Viola Davis

#any #anything #bigger #capacity #communicate

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#forgive #generous #more #much #remember

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#faults #forget #forgive #others #them

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#adventure #life

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#always #am #celebrities #country #equally

There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#divorce #family #family-ties #forgiveness #hate

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#does #forgive #look #looks #merciless