2008
A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
113 min
CLEAR ALL
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’