Quote by Jessamyn West
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more gri

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. – Jessamyn West

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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. – Jessamyn West

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. – Jessamyn West

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West

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Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it. – Mishkat Al-masabih

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[See also] Forgiveness is the perfume which flowers give when trampled upon. – Quoted in The Sacred Circle, VolumeI, edited by Judge Edmonds, Dr. Dexter, and O

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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. – Desmond Tutu

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