“Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.”

“Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”

Hannah More (1745–1833) English religious writer and philanthropist

“I forgive the pain and the disappointments,”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”

Quentin Crisp book The Naked Civil Servant

“I forgive the anger and the cruelty,”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

“At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.”

George Packer (1960) American journalist and writer

“I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmédy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew