- “There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Forgiveness, she continues, exists only between people who are qualitatively different from one another. Thus parents can forgive their children as long as the children are young, because the parents are their absolute superiors. Between equals, the gesture of forgiveness destroys the foundations of human interaction so radically that after such an act, there can basically no longer be a relationship. To forgive someone can mean only to forego taking revenge, to pass by in silence, and that is a fundamental leave-taking, “while revenge always remains close to the other person and does not sever the relationship.” Revenge “remains close to the other person” because people manifest themselves to each other in speech and action. That is, even in their mistakes and misdeeds, people are people and form relationships. In the same entry, Arendt went even further to say that forgiveness between equals was a “sham event.” The burden that someone has put on his own shoulders is apparently lifted, while the other, the forgiving person, must accept a burden and at the same time appear to be “unburdened,” to rise above the other and his misdeed. Only thus can the wrongdoer be unburdened of his wrong action. No one, Arendt wrote, can be that unburdened.” ― Marie Luise Knott, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt
- “I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
- “You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn’t go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn’t and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain’t sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn’t want to be forgiven if she wasn’t. I didn’t want to do or be nothin that she wasn’t like going to heaven or anything like that.” ― Cormac McCarthy
- “Do you want to acquire God’s own wisdom? Relate with the Holy Spirit. Be a seeker of divine guidance by the Holy Spirit. You can’t be a man or woman of solution without God.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- Forgiveness isn’t where we think someone else was a jerk but we’re so spiritual now that we deign to pardon them. Forgiveness means we extend our perception beyond the level of guilt and recognize the internal innocence within us all. Marianne Williamson
- “No label can define the immensity of your True nature. You are the awareness that precedes every label, the awareness that is perceiving these words and turning them into thoughts, the awareness that creates the world with every act of observation.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier at your side –a little happier, anyway– and children and all animals, if you yourself were nobler than you are now. It’s all like an ocean, I tell you. Then you would pray to the birds too, consumed by an all-embracing love in a sort of transport, and pray that they too will forgive you your sin.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- “The most difficult experience one might ever have, is to grieve the loss of a Loved-one who is still alive.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Only two entities in the universe know when you’ve done your best. One of them is you and the other one is not me. Judge not…” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “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, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
- “The lessons required to stand tall are ALWAYS taught while falling down. Falling for 1000th time, is no more than the required lesson that will allow me to claw my way back to standing for the 1001st time.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- It’s always like this, her life a pendulum between forgiveness and regret. Edwidge Danticat
- “Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by the worldview of Newtonian physics, which asserts that reality is objective—that there is a material universe existing outside of our experience. But this isn’t true; there is no material universe outside of you; the Universe takes form through you.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Wisdom cannot be bought from the walmart, it can only come from the Holy Spirit of God.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. William P. Young
- “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John1:1Words carry great power, it is quite important to know not so much what the dictionary says that they mean, but what the ancients say that they mean.Judaism believes that the entirety was created by rearranging the 22 letters of its alphabet into words, and whatever was spelled by God was created. “And God SAID let there be light and there was” God said/spelled a word first before any creation. In the beginning, was the word.Jesus, while on the cross, could have easily said, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they say” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Stick with it in faith my friend, Don’t Quit! Help is being sent of God, and will appear at the very moment you are truly prepared and ready to receive it. Of this fact each of us can truly testify, if being truly honest in the examining of the past Experiences of our Lives 🙂 The mere fact that I have breath to say these words, and you have energy to read them, is absolute proof that our Loving Heavenly Father has provided our every need, in every moment from the very beginning of this life. Definitely not every worldly want, but EVERY need. And that being the undeniable fact, why in Faith, would there be even the slightest worry for the moments yet to come in this life. God has never and never will abandon us in our needs!” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy
- “Hope, strive and try to be more like Christ until the day we will see Him. Let Him find you faithfully and in obedient serving Him. He is coming quicker than people think.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Anais Nin
- “Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
- “Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. Madame de Stael
- “Only myself and my Creator knows when I’ve done my best. Anyone else that tries to judge on that matter is a fool.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ― G.K. Chesterton
- “The beauty of death is that it is a constant reminder of the limited time we spend here in this unique life on Earth. It is the ongoing wakeup call that reminds us to be joyous, to laugh, to love, to be compassionate and grateful, and most of all – to forgive.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life