#mat

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5) ↗

— Rob Bell

#matthew- #forgiveness

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#goal #self-improvement #ultimate #writing #forgiveness

Love is hard. It's forgiving your best friend when you want to shove her away. ↗

— Liz Reinhardt

#love #perfectly-unmatched #relationships #youngblood #forgiveness

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

Being nice to someone who did you foul in the past is kinda like a mature way of getting revenge because it sometimes confuses the hell out of them & brings them to the realization that they no longer can manipulate your emotions with their actions...something they thought they'd always be able to do. ↗

— David Reeves

#maturity #revenge #forgiveness

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#compensation #dynamic #element #important #material

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#locke-lamora #underestimated #freedom

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#apes #humor #humorous #mammals #primates

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. ↗