The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.