Month: August 2025

“Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.” – Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!” – Emma, 1996 Screenplay

“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.” – Anaïs Nin

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley

“Don’t ruin the present with the ruined past.” – Ellen Gilchrist

“Sometimes, letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle

“True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.'” – Oprah Winfrey

“Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.” – Nikki Giovanni

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindness, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.” – Ellen Goodman

“Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting is to come sooner or later.” – Alice Munro, The Progress of Love