Forgiving Quotes - Page 30

• I don't know about forgiving, but it's an "I'm still here." And it's not just because I have nowhere else to go. It's because I believe in the possibility. I believe in the possibility of another way of being. Let's make other kinds of mistakes; let's be flawed differently.

  Claudia Rankine

  Mistake, Believe, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Sorry, People, Judging

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Forgive Me, Safe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

  Richard Flanagan

  Experts, Notes, Terror

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means to sacrifice, but mostly what it means to be alive, how to be a better person, how not to make the mistakes my parents had made. I guess that's what one might typically call a midlife crisis.

  Tod Goldberg

  Mistake, Mean, Sacrifice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Opportunity, Doe, Matter

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Catching myself in the moment. Then I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances. Whenever I can catch myself having a negative thought, I do Self I-Dentity through Ho'oponopono by saying to myself the phrases "I love you," "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you" in any particular order.

  Graham Shiels

  Sorry, Love You, Self

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• Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another.

  Patrick Fabian

  Attention, Littles, Pay

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, patrickfabian.com.

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• It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Attitude, League, Drug

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• I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.

  Marci Shimoff

  Practice, Kind, Wonderful

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There's a beautiful forgiveness practice I love which is quite simple. It's called "Ho'oponopono" (pronounced: ho-o-pono-pono) and it's a lot easier to do than it is to say. It's a Kahuna Hawaiian technique, which involves repeating four phrases internally toward yourself or the person whom you're having a hard time forgiving.

  Marci Shimoff

  Beautiful, Hard Times, Simple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you're having a hard time being compassionate to or forgiving of yourself or others, you repeat these four phrases directed to yourself or the other person: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you." And just by saying and feeling those phrases, you will find your heart starts to melt.

  Marci Shimoff

  Sorry, Love You, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I truly believe that forgiveness is the fast track to greater love and it's the path that can really heal all. We all have areas of our own lives where we have a hard time forgiving, whether it's with ourselves, or others, but when we can practice forgiveness, many of our self-destructive habits will begin to fade away.

  Marci Shimoff

  Believe, Hard Times, Practice

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They call their old friends and affirm their love for them, as well as detach themselves from them, and they try to get into as free a space as they can so they're really ready to go. They give away all their possessions and are as generous as possible. They give up old hatreds and grudges, and that's a wise intuitive thing, because it's much freer to live like that.

  Robert Thurman

  Wise, Giving Up, Space

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun.

  Adam Cole

  Fun, Want, Littles

  Source: 411mania.com

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• As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Layers, Might

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

  Kevin Allen

  Men, Quality, Stand Alone

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Humble, America, Soul

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

  Marianne Williamson

  Past, Looks, Done

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Grieving, Trying

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

  John Lewis

  Moving, People, Capacity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Years, Knowing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Worry, Enemy

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

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• I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Leader, Example

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Baseball, New York, Boston

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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