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  • #1
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “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 weak that is the human family.”
    Henri J.M. Nouwen

  • #2
    “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
    C.R. Strahan

  • #3
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #4
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Listen. 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

  • #5
    Jodi Picoult
    “What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”
    Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

  • #6
    Yann Martel
    “I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #7
    Yann Martel
    “When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #8
    Yann Martel
    “Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #9
    Yann Martel
    “Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.

    I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #10
    Yann Martel
    “I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #11
    Sarah Dessen
    “You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked.
    "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?”
    Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

  • #12
    “They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence ”
    John Di Lemme

  • #13
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    It is a key keeper’s right to bestow a copy of his key on anyone he wishes. But this practice―a phenomenal rite―is hardly ever performed. To receive a copy of the key means to have its imprint seared into your hand. Holding that branded replica over the front lock miraculously parts the gates to Dreamland. It works just as effectively as inserting the genuine key. Staggering to think about, isn’t it? You might consider clenching your fists when you dream.”
    Richelle E. Goodrich, Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper

  • #14
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!”
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: key

  • #15
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    tags: hope, key

  • #16
    Anthony Liccione
    “Many never realize they always had the key in their pocket, so they die at the locked door, never reaching deep inside to pull it out.”
    Anthony Liccione

  • #17
    Dejan Stojanovic
    “We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.”
    Dejan Stojanovic

  • #18
    Lisa Kleypas
    “I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.”
    Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

  • #19
    Charles Dickens
    “A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
    Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

  • #20
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
    Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

  • #21
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.”
    Victor Frankl

  • #22
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #23
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Dogs are the magicians of the universe.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
    tags: dogs

  • #24
    Alan Brennert
    “Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light”
    Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

  • #25
    “When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey.”
    Mark W Boyer

  • #26
    Nora Roberts
    “Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.”
    Nora Roberts, Heaven and Earth

  • #27
    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    “Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
    Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  • #28
    Brother Andrew
    “Don't curse the darkness but light a candle.”
    Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

  • #29
    C. JoyBell C.
    “When the demons start coming out— that's when you're nearing the light! It's hard for cockroaches to stay put without all the shadows. So in that case, keep on going!”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #30
    Brother Andrew
    “The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.”
    Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler



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