I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
Elbert HubbardThere is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert HubbardSeeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.
Elbert Hubbard