Nicholas Sparks Quotes

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !

Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

I hurt so many people.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.

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

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.