UNTITLED by William Nicholson (writer/director) Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever. Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness. As you suffer so I shall suffer. As you endure so I shall endure. Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time, then let me go.
"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different." Oprah Winfrey, Actress and Media Executive
"Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
Carrie Fisher
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in."
Louise L. Hay
"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."
Desmond Tutu
Have you ever seen footage of the behaviour between cats and dogs? Sometimes you see a dog, joyful and exuberant with energy, approaching a cat; its tail wagging with bonhomie; wanting to connect in the spirit of feline and canine accord much like the English / French Entende Cordiale. The cat pins its ears back, flicks its tail from side to side, and swipes viciously at the snout of the bewildered dog - with the full intent to draw blood. Sometimes the dog retaliates; sometimes a ‘Game on!’ peruses and sometimes the dog is
“People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.”
Sister Helen Prejean
My sister has two daughters – and when they first moved to America some years ago, the girls were both in high school. My younger niece, is a kind and gentle soul and a gifted artist. Fairly soon into her school career she knocked up against a Southern Belle by the name of Harper. Harper took an instant dislike to my niece and this scorn was equalled and bettered by my niece. For 6 years these girls became arch rivals and much of my niece's news often referenced the wrong doings of Hog-Faced Harper (as her moniker became). It