#past

But why is it so hard to forgive? Mrs. Conners asked. "Pride," Dad said. "This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give something up, in order to forgive him. ↗

— Bree Despain

#pastor-divine #forgiveness

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#grief #healing #healing-the-past #memory #tension

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#home #like #more #mortals #novelist

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace. ↗

— Bree Despain

#grace #mercy #pastor-divine #the-dark-divine #forgiveness

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need itwe need it. ↗

— Bree Despain

#forgiveness #pastor-divine #forgiveness

I like watching people stretch in the park. It's my new favorite pastime since I bought a portable rack. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#pastime #stretch #funny

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#extending #held #in the past #love #past

Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way. ↗

— Jessica Soffer

#future #past #present #writers #writing

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#certainly #earnings #equivalent #gap #great

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. ↗

— Nick Park

#films #forward #get #in the past #keep