#rin

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable. ↗

— Sándor Márai

#fear #secrets #sharing-secrets #writing #life

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#forgiveness

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. ↗

— John Green

#life #suffering #forgiveness

I'm going to teach you to ride Princess." "Princess?" "My motorcycle." I laugh. "You named your motorcycle Princess?" "What can I say?" he teases. "I call all my favorite things princess. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#fletcher #lily #mer #mermaid #mermate

[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#letting-go #self-righteousness #suffering #forgiveness

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#happiness #sharing #success #you #forgiveness

...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#forgiveness #forgiveness

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#forgiveness #malice #suffering #understanding #forgiveness

Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves. ↗

— Mike Norton

#forgiveness #suffer #suffering #forgiveness

Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--to repeat once again--Love, desires to justify Himself to mankind. He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. he is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man's lot and participates in his destiny. ↗

— John Paul II

#god #suffering #love