Quoteworthy

Some provocative quotes to ponder, related to the topic we are concluding. As always, I welcome comments.





“If I learned anything in my life, it is that bitterness consumes the vessel that contains it.” – Rubin “Hurricane” Carter



“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



“If it were all so simple! If there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn



“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” – Marianne Williamson



“To know all is to forgive all.” – St. Thomas Aquinas