Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Athol Fugard
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  1. 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. - Ellen Goodman

  2. When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you. - Jon Krakauer

  3. 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... - Henri J.m. Nouwen

  4. What I cannot love, I overlook. - Unknown

  5. 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. - Paulo Coelho

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  1. Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

  2. Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit."" We did say it was still only a dream."" And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.

  3. Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe....

  4. Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

  5. Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?... Learn to dance...

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