We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
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Ellen Goodman
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
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Jon Krakauer
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the...
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Henri J.m. Nouwen
What I cannot love, I overlook.
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Unknown
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.
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Paulo Coelho
More Quotes By Alan Paton
I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.
They were your friends?"" Yes, they were my friends."" And they will leave you to suffer alone?"" Now I see it."" And until this, were they friends you could trust?"" I could trust them."" I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind...
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
