6 Quotes by Karleen Koen

Nothing changes and everything does.

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

The first is about forgiveness. It is never done well in little bits and dabs. Do it all at once and never look back, or do not do it at all.

What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.

In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.