Monica Lewinsky Quotes

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

What's wrong is wrong, and that's absolutely acceptable, and I understand that people get hurt by things that people say that are hurtful, and we should be able to say that when someone says something that hurts us, that it hurts us.

We never want to go out there and hurt each other, so when it happens, it's emotional.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

Do I have a cold heart? Some say.

I have never deliberately tried to hurt someone's sentiments.

I know what it's like to feel distraught as I am an incredibly sensitive guy and feel for anything and everyone in pain, particularly my own sister.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us human.