#forgiven

Your past is a place for reference, not residence. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#future #life #past #reference #residence

Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them...It is unforgivable not to reclaim them. ↗

— Holli Kenley

#healing #recovery #truths #forgiveness

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #peace #forgiveness

Teach every child you meet the importance of forgiveness. It's our only hope of surviving their wrath once they realize just how badly we've screwed things up for them. ↗

— Justin Sewell

#demotivators #forgiveness

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

#forgiveness

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

— Anne Lamott

#forgiveness

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

#forgiveness

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

— Grace Murray Hopper

#forgiveness