Franck Ribery Quotes

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

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.

I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

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

Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

Let bygones be bygones.

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.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

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

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.