"I don’t write this letter to put..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
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“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
“The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid”
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
More on Forgiveness
“You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.”
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”
“Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.”
More on Bitterness
“Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
“Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.”
“The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.”