The Glass Castle Forgiveness Quotes

As human beings we are often reluctant to let go of our anger and unwilling to forgive others. This becomes especially true in the case of loved ones or family members. The poem, “How Do We Forgive Our Fathers?,” written by Dick Lourie, addresses the different dilemmas associated with a child forgiving his/her father. In his six-stanza poem, the poet discusses how a child should forgive their father for traumatic events imposed on the child. This includes reasons for forgiveness, appropriate time to forgive, and whether or not to even forgive at all. Detailed through the different stanzas, the poem suggests that until one learns how to appropriately forgive another for wrongful behavior, they will never be able to let go of resentment and

Jeannette Walls, Shows in the book The Glass Castle that there are a lot of situations that happen in life where people make countless mistakes, but it is very important to forgive her father and her mother for many mistakes. She has to cope with many obstacles without her parent's help. In the author's memoir, we become attracted with Jeannette constant struggle between protecting her family and the pleasure that her family is based on the same hopes and senseless falsehood with her unbelievable storytelling method. The feelings of forgiveness hold the Walls family together. Jeanette was able to describe her family's childhood, relationships with one another. The children of the Walls family are forced to begin the independent life at an

Forgiveness is a concept with philosophical, theological and psychological implications. As greater emphasis is placed on positive psychology, forgiveness has risen to major status

One of the most important theme in The Glass Castle is forgiveness. Jeannette and her brother and sisters spend their whole lives forgiving their parents for their irresponsibilities. They still love them and welcome them into their hearts even though Rex and Rose Mary didn't deserve it. By forgiving them, she feels less angry and her attitude as a whole is much more positive. When she is three years old, she burns herself cooking and her mother doesn't take care of her. After being in the hospital for 6 days, she let her cook again and says “Good for you, you have got to get right back in the saddle (15). ” Another example of forgiveness, is when she is trying to learns how to swim and her dad drops her in the water making her almost drown. She thinks he did this so she can learn, so she forgives him. Jeanette says, “I figured he must be right, there was no other way to explain it(66).” This means that she thought he didn't have an intention to harm her, but he tried to make her learn. At the end of the story, she meets her father for the last time and forgives him for all the bad things that had happened in her life and all the chaos. Although all of these bad things happened to her and her brother and sister because of him, she says she knew he loved her like no one else ever had. Jeanette said she forgives him for “all the hell-raising and destruction and chaos he [has] created in [her life].” On the other hand though, she says, “I could not imagine what my life would be like- without him in it. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had(279).” This means that she knew that he made all those mistakes throughout his life, but she still found a way to forgive him and look on the brighter side of things.

In FYS we were taught many ways to live in the world through the stories we read, speeches we listen to, and the projects we did. In the book, Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, and Destiny of The Republic, by Candice Millard, I saw a few prominent themes of how one should live. In these three books I learned about the author 's voice through their writings. I saw how one should live their life. In these books the authors shared common themes through their writings. The authors showed how to live life with forgiveness and live life with faith. Krueger and Potok both showed me through their novels how to forgive someone and they did this by showing that there is a bigger picture in

In The Pearl, family supports Kino with his choices and are there to forewarn him about the consequences. The loyalty of Kino’s family members affect Kino’s actions because no matter what Kino did, they were there to help him through it and support him with whatever he happens to get himself into. In some ways, Juan Tomas was incorrect to aid Kino in certain situations because Kino did murder a man but, Juan Tomas remained by his side and sustained his brothers selections. My response to whether Juana was correct to remain by Kino’s side is still undecided because she did have the authority to “walk out” and desert Kino, but she abided by Kino’s side and decided to stay. To be honest, I do think that each character possessed a choice because,

The article “To Forgive is Good but Sometimes I Want to Stay Mad”, by Bob Brody, discusses the need for forgiveness. Brody argues that in some situations forgiveness is not necessary. In his article he lists many scenarios which would require a tough forgiving. He talks about the perks of not forgiving and why forgiving is not always the best way to settle a dispute. Brody offers a strong argument and even recognizes that some believe that forgiveness is good for the mind, soul, and preventing medical complications; such as, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and depression. Brody’s claim that forgiveness is not always necessary is flawed because grudges do not help recovery of the transgression, grudges do not equalize the wrongdoing, and

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). As this wise, respected man once said, forgiveness can only bring progression into this world. Just imagine a world where everyone held grudges and never overlooked someone’s mistakes mankind would be set back decades because we wouldn’t be able to get along. Now I know many people hold grudges against one another due to mistakes but, it’s only human to make them and to get angry over these errors but, in order to progress with our lives we need to forgive and forget. I began to realize that some people were uncivil, and held grudges, when I was younger and I saw relatives get into arguments and altercations

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” This quote by Mahatma Gandhi describes the character it takes to forgive an individual of wrongdoing. Forgiveness results in multiple positive outcomes for both the forgiver and the person being pardoned. Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Keating’s “I Forgave the Man Who Shot Me” and Bettencourt's “Triumph of the Heart” discuss the importance of forgiveness in terms of moving on, freeing someone of guilt and finding happiness.

Most people would agree that forgiving is a positive action for both the person who is forgiving and the person who is being forgiven but do people have a responsibility to forgive each other? The Holocaust, one of the most horrifying eras of modern history provides examples of almost unimaginable crimes against humanity and opportunities to forgive. One selection explores the importance of forgiveness. In “Six Reasons Not to Forgive, Not Yet” psychologist David Bendrick offers reasons why forgiving too soon may not be the best decision. People do not have a responsibility to forgive each other in every situation.

When it comes down to forgiving someone one has to make that decision to; forgiveness is not something one can carelessly over-look. Worthington and McCullough state that “[D]ecisional Forgiveness involves a change in a person’s behavioral

Bernard Meltzer (n.d.) once stated, "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future." Forgiveness is power. It is the power to leave the past behind, and the power to change what lies before you. The act of forgiveness reaps benefits for the offended and the offender. Forgiveness allows you to let go of the pain of the past, and break free from being controlled by the pain. When you decide to march into the future donned with eyes of forgiveness, you choose to walk a path of self-healing, promote opportunity for reconciliation and transformation, and open your door to freedom.

Forgiving doesn’t mean you forget what has happened, it simply means, “yes it did happen but I’m going to take this and learn from it” instead of letting that person get the best of you. Not all people truly understand what the meaning of forgiveness is, and usually those people are the ones that take it as the other person being “weak” or showing weakness and that it’s ok for them to proceed in doing what they intend to do, and that is, to try and bring you down because they see that you’re doing just fine without them being in your life, so they turn to just trying to make your life ten times harder than it should be because they feel like it. In life, there are going to be many times where you are going to have conflicts with others, and what you as the “bigger” person should do is to remain calm in these situations, reflect, and forgive. As the saying goes, “you live and you learn” it is truly what you do in life, it’s a thing that every human being

Maybe the lack of forgiving per say, is not your issue maybe it is that you have forgiven time and time again, only to find you continually set yourself up for victimization. Your sense of self -esteem, your sense of trust in yourself, in your personal power has been chipped away little by little.

In the second article I chose to read, Hall and Fincham (2005) discuss the concept of self-forgiveness. Their analysis seeks to get to the heart of what it means and essentially what it takes to forgive oneself for wrongdoing and reckless abandon. Enright (1996) defines self-forgiveness as “a willingness to abandon self-resentment in the face of one’s own acknowledged objective wrong, while fostering compassion, generosity, and love toward oneself.” Hall and Fincham (2005) argue that self-forgiveness is an internal and volatile aberration that results in both a retaliatory and benevolent