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  • I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

    Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15
  • And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

    Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.99, Random House
  • It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and kill them. Thats not what rights are about. Thats injustice. There is no counter-argument to veganism. Accept it. Apologize for the way youve been living. Make amends and move forward.

    Moving   Animal   Rights  
  • I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

    Thinking   Order   Faults  
  • Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

    Marriage   Men   Thinking  
    Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.159
  • As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

  • If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

    Pain   Regret   Self  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

    FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 03, 2011
  • That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

  • The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

  • I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

    Fall   Toes   Claims  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

    Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library
  • I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.

    "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.
  • I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

    Men   Society   Debtors  
    'The Elements of the Common Law' (1596) preface
  • Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

    Pain   Giving   Prejudice  
  • No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

    J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1244, e-artnow
  • Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

    Eye   Past   Doors  
    Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission foreword (1998)
  • The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

    Trying   Ugly   Ill  
  • If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

    Soul   Suffering   States  
  • Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

    Materialism   Lord   Benz  
    "Mercedes-Benz" (song) (1970)
  • A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

  • How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

    Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin
  • Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

    Way   Offensive   Habit  
    George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57
  • All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

    Letting Go   Fear   Two  
  • Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.

  • Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

    Sorrow   Guilt   Done  
  • Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.

    Pain   Moving   Healing  
  • It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

    Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.9, Solid Christian Books
  • She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

    Knack   Way   Great Women  
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