“The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It’s that simple.”

“…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…”

“Forgiveness is a selfish act. It unburdens you, relieves you and prepares you to move forward, take big steps and do all that you could not do when you were chained up in invisible ropes of a grudge.”

“What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.”

“Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.”

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”

“At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.”

“Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.”

“The dead don’t desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji”

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”


The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.Do good anyway.If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway.The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway.Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.Be honest and frank anyway.The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.Think big anyway.People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.Fight for a few underdogs anyway.What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.Build anyway.People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.Help people anyway.Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.Give the world the best you have anyway.”

“Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.”

“Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be “holy” the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.”

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”