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There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225) ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#forgiveness

Once someone tries a real extra virgin -- an adult or a child, anybody with taste buds -- they'll never go back to the fake kind. It's distinctive, complex, the freshest thing you've ever eaten. It makes you realize how rotten the other stuff is, literally rotten. But there has to be a first time. Somehow we have to get those first drops of real extra virgin oil into their mouths, to break them free from the habituation to bad oil, and from the brainwashing of advertising. There has to be some good oil left in the world for people to taste. ↗

— Tom Mueller

#food #media #olive-oil #food

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#self #western-civilization #food

There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial. ↗

— Janet Rebhan

#fine-line #forgiveness #forgiveness

Search for contentment in each person you meet. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#contentment #inspirational #kindness #motivational #inspirational

If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#holding-out-for-the-best #living-your-best-life #not-settling #positive-thinking #refusing-to-settle

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality— ↗

— Alyson Noel

#immortality #soul #thoughts #forgiveness

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward. ↗

— Alison Croggon

#mistakes #trust #forgiveness

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#forgive #happiness #inspiration #learn #letting-go

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. ↗

— Robert Frost

#forgiveness