Alice Munro Quotes

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

The main reason for healing is love.

Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

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

Love is always the answer to healing of any sort.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.