personal reconciliation Quotes

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it. I've walked both sides of the fence, and there are times I can't sleep and I wake the engineer up and get it out of me. But it usually doesn't pour all the way out. I have to come back and have the conversation that you usually try not to have with yourself. That's how it gets resolved.