Rachel Joyce Quotes

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

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.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

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

My aim in life is not to judge.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

I just want people to remember I'm not perfect. I just try to lead with love every day.

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.