Rachel Joyce Quotes

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.

Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.

I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.

Henry Hays was cheated all his life. He was cheated by his father who taught him to hate. His community taught him to hate. My mom told me, no matter what one does in life, he or she deserves some compassion, and I knew Hays deserved compassion more than anybody.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.