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• All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

  Boethius

  Discipline, Rewards, Fortune

  Boethius (1897). “The Consolation of Philosophy”

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• It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Firsts, Praying, Conscious

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.9, Solid Christian Books

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• Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

  Bob Matsui

  Country, Apology, Past

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• The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Casting, Amish

  "Plain Truth". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2007.

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• Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

  Charlie Sheen

  Moving, Home, Telling The Truth

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Apology, Trying, Path

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.65, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

  Charles Dickens

  Christian, Regret, Mean

  Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

  Craig Ferguson

  Knack, Way, Great Women

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• Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

  Thomas Brooks

  Life Is Short, Heaven, Rewards

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.6

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• I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

  Suzy Favor Hamilton

  Daughter, Mother, Wife

  Twitter post from Dec 20, 2012

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• True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Mean, Repentance, Making Amends

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.437, Baker Books

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• I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

  Stan Getz

  Done, Apologizing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.

  Paul Hawken

  Simple, People, Trying

  "The Ecology of Commerce". Book by Paul Hawken, 1993.

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• Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Virtue

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

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• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Life, Real, Too Late

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Sorrow, Guilt, Done

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• A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Zoos, Rooms

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• My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

  Mary McGrory

  Teenager, Golden, Lord

  Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

  Catherine the Great

  Mean, Men, People

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• If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

  John Tillotson

  Soul, Suffering, States

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• … that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.

  Amos Oz

  Loneliness, Self, Hands

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• A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.

  Lisa Unger

  Children, Sorry, Pain

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.747, Crown

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• Sadly, [Pablo Escobar] ended up throwing away the one opportunity he had. I naively thought, as a son and as many other Colombians, that he would take this opportunity to make amends with the country.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Country, Son, Opportunity

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.

  Phil Cousineau

  Pain, Moving, Healing

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