most important is our capacity to nurture a loving heart‚ to affirm and not to curse‚ to forgive even when we cannot completely forget." - Glenn H. Turner Some Questions to ask: How do you respond when you are wounded? How do you feel toward the person who has hurt you? How long do you carry your anger and how does that re-sentment (feeling it again and again) continue to hurt you? Can you forgive and break the cycle? Can you understand the other? What does forgiveness mean to you? It
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“Because 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 now that she forgives me for being dumb and scared and doing the dumb and scared thing. I know she forgives me‚ just as her mother forgives her.” At the end of the novel‚ after Alaska
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believe forgiveness is a virtue‚ and that they can forgive everything‚ even if the sin wasn’t done to them. Others believe that it is impossible to forgive a sin that wasn’t done to oneself. In the memoir The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal asked a question. What would I have done‚ if I was asked to forgive a person that killed three hundred Jews? In the fifth commandment God says‚ “You Shall Not Kill” (KJV). I believe it is God’s power to forgive or not forgive a person that has killed another human being
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disposition or willingness to forgive”. But what does it really mean? That is my question. Is being able to forgive and not forget the same thing? In my life‚ I have found that true forgiveness is a quality that separates us from other species and it is what makes us human. In order to truly and sincerely forgive‚ one must‚ aside from saying they have forgiven the person‚ let it go and not hold a grudge against that person. Just‚ as Mahatma Gandhi once said: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the
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hold grudges? Somebody says‚ “I can forgive but cannot forget”; can you forgive and forget someone who hurt you so much? Do we feel ashamed to confess our faults and say sorry? Do we still live in the past; keep regretting what we’ve missed‚ what we’ve lost? New Year should begin with a new heart. It’s a perfect time to clean the little rooms in our heart. It’s an opportunity to say ‘goodbye’ to the past and say ‘hello’ to your bright future! So‚ forgive and forget the people‚ who caused us to have
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Forgiveness. It is a part of our daily routine. Something we frequently give and take but do we truly understand its meaning? According to Encarta Dictionary‚ to forgive means to stop being angry about something‚ to pardon someone from their mistakes‚ to cancel an obligation or offense such as a debt. According to primary students‚ Forgiveness means not taking revenge. Forgiveness means being friends again. Forgiveness‚ for me‚ is the best gift we can give and receive. Not only it is free but
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circumstance. I would forgive the dying SS soldier because I feel like nothing is more important than his repentance. There are two other major factors that help me to decide to forgive the dying SS soldier which are peer pressure and his naiveness. I am just a normal person who does not believe in any superhuman being. However I have learned about different religions and they share the same common lesson about compassion---mercy is sometimes more important than justice. They forgive sinners who genuinely
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Tut. Karl wanted a Jew to confess to. Simon Wiesenthal walked in the room and was talking to Karl. Karl wanted to cleanse himself‚ he was asking for forgiveness for all the sins he has done. Karl wanted to talk to Simon because he thought he could forgive for the other Jews. Simon just walked out of the room. Karl’s father died in a factory‚ it was bombed and he passed away only his mother lives. Simon left the Hospital and keeps thinking of the ss man’s crime and if he should have a sunflower. A sunflower
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Discuss” ------------------------------------------------- In ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini‚ we are shown through the characters of Amir‚ Soraya and Sohrab that we cannot necessarily escape our past but we can confront our past mistakes‚ forgive ourselves and others and move on with out lives. Amir struggles for self-forgiveness and therefore feels like he cannot escape the guilt and shame of past mistakes. On the other hand‚ Soraya chooses to confront her behaviour and accept what happened
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wrong doing; simple mistakes are tolerable‚ but serious crimes are unforgivable. However‚ some people will mention the cliché‚ “forgive and forget” (saying). Whoever created this saying has to explain the meaning of it because the logic is unclear. Did the saying’s author use the word “forget” because it rhymes with the word “forgive”‚ or because people need to literally forget the crime that others did to them? It sounds impossible because the human brain does not have a delete memory feature. Maybe
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