Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“I have always been more violent in my negative than in my positive demands. Thus, in personal relations, I could forgive much neglect more…

— C.S. Lewis

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“Silly youth and presumptuous senility: the world remains the same as always...”

— Jeff Ampolini

“Forgiveness was such a tricky business. One could forgive with all sincerity one moment and then be overcome by feelings of anger and ill-use…

— Claudia Harbaugh

“I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the…

— Isabel Lopez

“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to…

— Benjamin Constant

“How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.”

— Graham Swift

“Learning that I could forgive my father, while realizing I did not have to let the aspects that I found unhealthy, disrespectful, and wrong…

— Neal Winsomer

“why. I have found it difficult at times to forgive myself for what happened.  But a significant part of the answer involves forgiveness, something…

— Joshua Graham

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“a noble and active mind blunts itself against nothing so quickly as the sharp and bitter irritant of knowledge. And certain it is that…

— Thomas Mann

“No need for grudges or resentment. I wanted this, I wanted a new life. I was tired of everything, tired of me. It was…

— J.C. Wickhart