#give

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted. ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#gossip-girl #sad #forgiveness

We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time." p. 318 ↗

— David LeRoy

#decision #hate #love #forgiveness

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#inspirational #job-seeking #unemployment #forgiveness

Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#forgiveness

God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#renewal #forgiveness

I'm a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again. ↗

— Annette Thomas

#forgiveness

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. ↗

— Rick Warren

#forgiveness #genocide #rwanda #faith

My Lord! how great my desire to meet You, how earnest my hope of Your reward. O Most Gracious, Hope of all hope, O Adored by all, if I be unworthy of You, and my endeavors not deserving of devotion, then gladly shall I confess to my infirmities, my sins. For who could be more forgiving than Yourself? But should You choose to chastise me, I will satisfy myself in the knowledge that no one could be more just than You ↗

— Rabi'a the Mystic

#forgiveness

Once I could see Mom for who she was, and not the mother she had failed to be, I'd be able to forgive her. She was her own person, not just my mother, and it was this person I was forging a relationship with. ↗

— Rachel Sontag

#forgiveness

remembering and forgiving can be contrary things ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#forgiveness