#ss

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#death #emotion #sadness #threat #anger

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#awareness #anger

Forgiving is not easy when you're still hurting. ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

#forgiveness

Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#forgiveness

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#repentance #forgiveness

Or perhaps we should just ask Todd." I pound the glass right at his face. He doesn't even flinch. And then she says, "Todd would never tell you. Never." And the Mayor just looks at me. And he smiles My stomach sinks, my heart drops, my head feels so light I feel like I'm going to drop right to the ground. Oh, Viola- Viola, please- Forgive me. "Captain Hammar," the Mayor says and Viola's plunged into the water again, unable to not scream out in fright as down she goes. "NO!" I shout, pressing myself against the mirror. But the Mayor ain't even looking at her. He's looking right at me, as if he could see me even if I was behind a brick wall. "STOP IT!" I shout as she's thrashing again- And more- And more- "VIOLA!" And I'm pounding even tho my hands are breaking- And Mr. Hammar is grinning and holding her there- "VIOLA!" And her wrist are starting to bleed from where she's pulling- "I'LL KILL YOU!"- I'm shouting into the Mayor's face- With all my Noise- "I'LL KILL YOU!"- And still holding her there- "VIOLA! VIOLA!"- But it's Davy- Of all people- It's Davy who stops it. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#davy #mayor #torture #viola #forgiveness

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. ↗

— T.D. Jakes

#hope #pain #prison #forgiveness

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#history #forgiveness

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#inspirational #life #forgiveness

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#flaws #forgiveness #human-frailties #forgiveness