Selena Gomez Quotes

'Alarm' was about a boy that cheated on me, and when I found out, I wondered if I should give him another chance. I used to give a lot of chances to people hoping they would become better people, but this one didn't.

I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.

My parole officer always believed in my capacity for redemption, even when my actions did not inspire confidence.

Living in this world, we all just want to be happy. And I don't think it is right to be denied that opportunity over a single mistake.

I'm all about people being able to redeem themselves.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.

America is a country that believes in redemption.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

Maybe I'm corny, but I'm a big believer in second chances.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.