Janet Frame Quotes

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side…allow by—gones to be by—gones, and look to the present & future only.

The breakup of my first marriage was my first failure; I had to learn to accept that and support the people involved. The court case brought against me by three of the band was awful, but learning how to let it go, move on, and come back together as friends and creative partners was a life lesson above any other.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Without anyone's help, Darth Maul will only commit himself to his mistakes of the past. Every time we find this character, he is living in the past and in some cases he is living with the dead. This character is desperate and he needs Obi-Wan's help to move on.

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

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

Get mad, then get over it.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

A man has not time to spend half his life in quarrels. If a man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

If we keep on raking up the past, you can never work with anybody. You will always be fighting against your enemies, and that is bad.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

If you lose a fight with someone, you don't get revenge from fighting someone else.

I let bygones be bygones, and guys, 'BB' game is over now.