Forgiven Quotes

“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of, the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends, and a more-than minor life.

And then i screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. And there's no sugar-coating it: She deserved better friends.

When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified. into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And I could have done that, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it spite of having lost her.

Beacause I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person. I know that she forgives me for being dumb and sacred and doing the dumb and scared thing. I know she forgives me, just as her mother forgives her. And here's how I know:

I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her a lot like that, as something's meal. What was her-green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs-would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would their homes with her, and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere.

I still think that, sometimes. I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe she was just a matter, and matter gets recycled.

But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirety. There is a part of her knowable parts. And that parts has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed. Although no one will ever accuse me of being much of a science student, One thing I learned from science classes is that energy is never created and never destroyed.

And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing her mother and her friends and herself -those are awful things, but she did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

When adults say "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Eidson's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green , Looking for Alaska

“You’re sorry? I damn near drank myself to death, I could barely get out of bed, I shattered my phone into a million pieces on New Year’s Eve to keep from calling you … and you’re sorry?”
I bit my lip and nodded, ashamed. I had no idea what he’d been through, and hearing his say the words made sharp pain twist inside my chest. “I’m so … so sorry.”
“You’re forgiven,” he said with a grin. “Don’t ever do it again.”
“I won’t. I promise.”
He flashed his dimple and shook his head. “I fucking love you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.”
― Stephen Richards, Releasing You From The Past: Healing Past Hurt Through Forgiveness

“I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and singing with rapture.
There is not a thing I do not love.
There is not a person I have not forgiven.
I feel a universe of love.
I feel a universe of light.
Tonight, I am with old friends
and we are returning home.
The moon is our witness.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for an eye will make us all blind.”
― Morra Quatro

“Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.”
― Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

“Forgiven doesn't mean no regret. We'll always regret the wrongs we've done. It just means you're not punishing yourself for it.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

“It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“You chose a villain role because you were not
destined for another and I do not, in sound mind, resent you for being that way because you knew not any other.”
― The Raveness, Night Tide Musings

“Forgiveness is a radical act of setting your soul free, and the person you blame, hate, fear or resent cannot help you with that. Only your heart holds the key.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“***Sunn Meri Dastak***

khudse naaraz hai kyu,
aisi talaash hai kyu,
rooh teri udaas hai kyu bandeya...

naa mitegi yeh hasratein,
naa bharegi yeh khalaa,
naa milega yu sukoon bandeya...

sunn meri dastak,
khol dil ka dar,
kar mujhe qubool bandeya....

le haath mera thaam,
aur karle itmenaan,
ki yaad nahi mujhe
teri koi bhi bhool bandeya...”
― Henna Sohail

“You're always wanting to be forgiven. What do you want to be forgiven for?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“People usually tell you to forgive the one who hurt you, they tell you to move on and they tell you that you are strong enough to handle yourself but, what they never tell you about forgiveness is that it is one of the most painful things to do in life.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“He hasn’t only forgiven your sins, he has also forgotten about them. Do not condemn yourself!”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Forgiven of my sins so it's a discharge of my crimes. Commercially speaking, intervals between these programmed shows, keep your eyes glued to the set watching this literacy flow.
Intentional means, I intend my influence to outlive me like Martin Luther the King, Martin Luther and his dream.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“How many times have you forgiven people because your chest is too small to hold grudges?”
― Nitya Prakash

“Jesus said, 'Your sins are forgiven, go and sin no more”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Nothing but the present moment exists, the past is gone because it has been forgiven.”
― J.R. Incer, Boost Your Brainpower 365

“The heavenly Father forsakes not but forgives.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“O' Almighty God
I have forgiven everyone
For that You forgive Me
Aameen”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Sin forgiven must be forsaken.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." God wouldn't want you to remain a prisoner of your shame, Olivia. You are His beloved child, forgiven and redeemed. Be brave enough to claim the happiness He has in store for you.”
― Susan Anne Mason, A Haven for Her Heart

“Whoever wishes to be forgiven, must forsake evil ways.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To forgive at all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive forever--here is a panorama of wonders. And when I think of how great my sins were, how dear the precious drops that cleansed me from them, and how gracious was the method by which pardon was sealed home to me, I am a maze of wondering, worshipping affection. I bow before the throne that absolves me, I clasp the cross that delivers me, and all my days I give to serve the Incarnate God, through whom I am this night a pardoned soul.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“You apologize awful quick.”
Quick? He’d had days to think it over. A week full of regret… and wonder. “Only when I know I’m wrong.”
Mrs. Blake shot him a sly grin. “”Guess I see why my granddaughter saw fit not to leave you in the desert.”
― Chandra Blumberg, Stirring Up Love

“He wasn’t just telling me, "If you’re good, I’ll forgive you. If you do this and that and follow my protocol with excruciating exactness, then I will forgive you." No, He had already forgiven me. Just like the lawyer had stood on my behalf after my second DUI, so Jesus had stood before the judgement throne of God. Although I was 100% guilty, he had erased all evidence against me.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I was not in the system any longer. I didn’t need to perform an endless list of deeds to keep myself out of jail and in the judge’s good favor. I’d been completely forgiven of my past, present, and future sins. In His book, next to the name Michael Heil was a signature that read: “Paid in full,” signed Jesus.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“And he said...

...be not forgiven when you cannot forgive others.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Well, if you think I should be forgiven because I didn’t mean to do what I did, then shouldn’t you be forgiven too?”
― Molly Ringle, Ballad for Jasmine Town