It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
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 G. K. Chesterton
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
