#ness

This is something about your father?' 'This is something about you." Frank put his hand on my shoulder and he looked me in the eye. The effect was dismaying. Frank meant to inspire camaraderie, but his head looked to me like a bizarre little owl, blinded by light and perched on a tall white post. 'Maybe you'd better come to the point. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#inspirational

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#future-inspirational #happiness #hope #love #success

Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#forgiveness #held-onto #hurt #hurt-feelings #love

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness #inspirational #life #inspirational

It was known that they were a little acquainted, but not a syllable of real information could Emma procure as to what he truly was. “Was he handsome?” “She believed he was reckoned a very fine young man.” “Was he agreeable?” “He was generally thought so.” “Did he appear a sensible young man; a young man of information?” “At a watering-place or in a common London acquaintance it was difficult to decide on such points. Manners were all that could be safely judged of under a much longer knowledge than they had yet of Mr. Churchill. She believed everybody found his manners pleasing.” Emma could not forgive her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#forgiveness

There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you. - Miles Vorkosigan ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#forgiveness #forgiveness

God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#forgiveness

MPFlatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. ↗

— William A. Ward

#forgiveness

Forgive them Father! They know not what they do! ↗

— Anonymous

#forgiveness

Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness. ↗

— Garret Keizer

#political-correctness #sin #forgiveness