Lorrie Moore Quotes

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

I don't have resentments towards anyone I played with or to the guy who bullied me in the sixth grade. I've worked through it.

I am so happy I have been able to channel all the things that I went through when I was younger and make them into something positive.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

We can choose the attitude that says, I have been wronged. People have hurt me, but with the help of God, I am going to learn how to return good for evil, and I am going to make a difference in this world.

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me.

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.