#ness

Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#freedom #happiness #freedom

...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

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#courage #deeper #earnestness #greater #motive

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