Lloyd Alexander Quotes

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

I haven't any thirst for revenge.

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

What have I to forgive and whom?

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.