Jean Smart Quotes

I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.

A great thing of getting older is coming to terms and saying sorry and trying to repair damage that happened in the past.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

I don't really believe in regrets.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

You get to show that, sometimes, it's not too late to do what many might've done decades before.

We all have things in life we'd do over again.

I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

I believe in second chances.

If you regret anything in your life, then you haven't learned any lessons.

I've had people send messages that said, 'I'm sorry how I treated you in high school.' It was just through kindness. I still think of the world the same way I did growing up. When I got hurt, I decided that this is how people are. But the world is changing, and even those people have changed. And I have. I need to let go, too.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

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

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.