#forgiven

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time. ↗

— Alice Munro

#forgiveness

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#vaccination #forgiveness

It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an ever stronger person to forgive. ↗

— Vanessa Guzman

#forgiveness

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness. ↗

— Kate Morton

#love #parenting #responsibility #forgiveness

... I want most of all for you to forgive Grandfather. I want you to forgive Grandfather so I can grow up and be just like you. ↗

— Patricia MacLachlan

#forgiveness

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#oneness #others #ourselves #viewpoints #forgiveness

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for an eye will make us all blind. ↗

— Morra Quatro

#indonesian #literature #novel #forgiveness

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time. ↗

— Alice Munro

#forgiveness

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