Thank you for being my son. I love you and miss you.
No matter what, I regret it if things don't go as you have expected. I want to make things better and I hope you can find the space in your heart to want the same.

Love,

Mommy

I'm sorry for hating my husband so much - holding everything over these last 18 years against him and not trying to understand him like I would try to understand others.

I am sorry for having a short temper and not giving people the benefit of the doubt. Of judging others too harshly. Of thinking negative thoughts.

I'm sorry for yelling at my husband and kids whom I love. I'm sorry for being selfish and jealous. I will try to do better.

I ask the eternal spirit of my Aunt Vera to forgive my ungratefulness, callousness, rudeness and lack of love.

I ask forgiveness for all hurt I have caused to anyone.

Project Forgiveness received more than 120 postcards from student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA.

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"I am sorry that I cry a lot"

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"I'm sorry for littering the earth and throwing trash. I'm also sorry for being mean to my family. I am sorry for lying."

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"Dear G-d I'm sorry that I supposed ruined or are ruining my mom's life and love live"

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"I am sorry that I had attitude to my mom. Do you forgive me?"

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"I'm sorry for not listening and doing what my parents say the first time. I'm sorry for getting mad at them if they don't help me the minute I need help."

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"G-d please forgive me for not going to services for a long time."

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"I am sorry for not sharing"

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"I'm sorry that sometimes I didn't listen to my parents"

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"Dear God,

Please forgive me for making fun of my brother for having to go to summer school."

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

Dear g-d I am sorry for teleing (telling) a teacher you are wite (white) trash"

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA:

"Dear MoM and DaD I am srey (sorry) for accidently not flushing"

From a student at Congregation B'nai Israel, in Tustin CA

"I'm sorry for waking Dad up at 5:30 in the MORNING"

Thank you Congregation Or Chadash in AZ, for teaching your students about forgiveness.

We received several dozen postcards from the students and have provided text from some below:

"I am sorry for not cleaning up my room"

"Sorry I threw the crumbs"

"I am sorry Mom for mimicking you"

"I'm sorry I didn't listen"

"I ask for forgiveness for making her fall and cry"

"I am sorry for interapting when you wer talking"

"I am sorry A I hit you in the face"

"I am sorry I scratched my brother"

"Please forgive me for smacking you in my piroutte - I will not do it again"

"I am sorry I accidently spilled the chocolate powder"

"I am sorry I laughed in your class"

From a student at Congregation Or Chadash in Scottsdale, AZ:

"I want forgiveness for bertenting (pretending) to be a sleep wanting to sleep with my parents because it is warm in ther bed."

F

I ask all who know me to please forgive me if I have hurt, harmed, insulted or otherwise upset you in any way. I pray for health and happiness for all. Shana Tova .

- Ilya

I am sorry for not loving my husband enough, and for loving the other more.

Mom -

I am sorry I didn’t mourn your death the way it deserved to be. I don’t understand my lack of grief. Maybe it was seeing you disappear before my very eyes for so many years. Maybe it’s because at least if you are not in a better place, then you are devoid of pain. I tired my hardest to connect with you when there was nothing left to connect with-just a body, with no capacity to communicate and hopefully a soul or spirit I tried to find that spirit each time I visited you. Sometimes I could, and sometimes I couldn’t. I thought it was my fault when I couldn’t.

Why don’t I cry more than I have? I pray I haven’t lost the capacity to love. I do try to take care of Dad but I am so far away, and not always well. I say Kaddish nearly every day because it means something to Dad, but I am left empty. I don’t know how you managed that trick with the mourner’s ribbon, but it sure got my attention. Do not think I don’t miss you. I do. It’s just that I have been missing you for so long.
Does this mean you weren’t a good enough person last year? Should I still believe in the Book of Life?

I didn’t go to services today. I’m not sure if it was just because I felt lousy. Maybe it’s because I no longer understand anything. Please forgive me for all my doubts. I know you would want me to remain strong in my beliefs but I am having a hard time. I have 10 days to turn back to God. Please help me.

I am sorry that I physically abused my body.
I am sorry that I do not have the self control to control all the members of my body.
I am sorry that I have desecrated my body.
I am sorry for things that I have said that have hurt other people.
I am sorry that I did not do things to help others when I had a chance to do so.
I am sorry that I sometimes value material things more than people.
I am sorry that I have not lived my life to my maximum potential.

For all these things, I am sorry, and I am humbled by my misdeeds.

Forgive Me
Four chambers of regret.
That is what I am tonight.
Would it make a difference if I took every misspoken word that I said back onto my tongue, Swished the letters around like Listerine, And laid them back out on some heavenly scrabble board to read 'I know now how much that I have hurt you'?
And you will say that these are just words.
And you will be right.
- Daniel S. Brenner

I'm sorry I didn't let you kiss me good night forgive me
I'm sorry I didn't hug you enough forgive me
I'm sorry I didn't listen harder, longer and more effectively

forgive me I'm sorry you think I'm wrong, not fair and don't love you
forgive me I'm sorry that I say things that hurt you when I don't mean to and when I mean to forgive me I'm sorry that sometimes I'm not a better mother, wife, daughter, sister, co-worker and Human being
forgive me.

I'm sorry sometimes I talk to much and to little or to late

forgive me Most of all Dear Hashem I'm sorry for the disregard, disrespect and irresponsibility of my actions or lack of actions
Forgive me and give me a chance to be a better person to those I love and those I have yet to love.
Please Hashem give the opportunity to be a better Jew and reflect all that there is in our beautiful religion.

Students at the Yavneh Academy in Paramus, NJ drew pictures to say sorry.

I am sorry for all those who have been hurt by angry words spoken by me. I ask for forgiveness. And for those who have hurt me I feel no anger against them.

I'm sorry I yelled.
I'm sorry I was disrespectful.
I'm sorry I didn't help.
I'm sorry I criticized.
I'm sorry I belittled.
I'm sorry I was jealous.
I'm sorry I ignored you.
I'm sorry I lost your trust.
I'm sorry I disappointed you.
I'm sorry I made you sad.
I'm sorry I made you wait.
I'm sorry I upset you.
I'm sorry I didn't act nicer.
I'm sorry I waited.
I'm sorry I didn't wait.
I'm sorry I insulted you.
I'm sorry I hurt you.
I'm sorry I caused you pain.
I'm sorry I was so vain.
I'm sorry I wasn't there for you.
I'm sorry I always checked up on you.
I'm sorry I didn't do the right thing.
I'm sorry I did the wrong thing.
Life is too short.
It goes by so fast.
Please god forgive me for my sins.
Please god give me the strength to ask forgiveness of others.
Please god let them forgive me.
Please god end the suffering.
Please god forgive me.

I'm sorry for not being a big enough person to let past hurts and insults go and being able to forgive my spouse's family for the way they have treated me.

i'm sorry for being absorbed in my trivial time-wasting nonsense and not being there to do someone a favor ...

i'm sorry for having to wait to be asked/begged to do a favor, when i should have jumped at the chance unasked ...

i'm sorry for being irritable and impatient even when trying to do the favor, and not understanding the desperation of the one in need ...

i'm sorry for not understanding, and not doing what i could ...

i'm sorry ...

My mother will be gone in December for 10 years, and there isn't a day that I don't wish she were here that I could ask her forgiveness. Not for one thing, for so many things.I pray everyday that she can hear me and know how sorry I am.

thank you for letting me put this into writing. my heart is very heavy as I write this and I just want to cry. I know nobody can tell me it is all right, it can never be undone. While you have your parents you just do and say things, never did I ever think I would be sorry. Now ten year later, everyday I think of something else I should have said or done.

So I'm asking for some forgiveness from I don't know who. The hardest thing is to forgive yourself.Thank you again for letting me vent

Dear Friend,

I forgive you that you yelled at me.
I forgive you that you lost control of your anger.
I forgive you that you took out all your hardships on me.
I forgive you that you lashed out at me when you felt I was hurting you.
I forgive you that you caused me to fall silent.
I forgive you that you unintentionally destroyed my self-worth.
I forgive you that you said I'm sorry and then did it again.
I forgive you for not having enough patience to pull me out from behind the all the locks I had placed around my heart.
I forgive you for not treating me with love when I was lost and alone on the edge of myself.
I forgive you that when I gave you the only thing I had left (myself), you rejected me.
I forgive you for having to sacrifice my deepest self so that I could keep you from hurting you so much that you could not let it go.

I'm sorry that I yelled back.
I'm sorry that I wasn't in always in control of my anger.
I'm sorry that I was cold and unloving.I'm sorry that I stopped trusting you.
I'm sorry that I became mean.
I'm sorry that everything I said or did hurt you.
I'm sorry that the thing I wanted most was to stop being your friend.
I'm sorry that I felt relieved that I could pull back when you found the one person you really needed.
I'm sorry that I couldn't fix your problems and heal your heart.

Thank you for forgiving me every time.
Thank you for not holding any of it against me.
Thank you for giving me reason to trust you again.
Thank you for showing me the gift of being human.
Thank you for teaching me how to let my emotions get the best of me and have it be ok.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to find the best in myself when I had become the worst of myself.

I loved you just as deeply through everything.I only wanted to set things right.
I tried to understand you so I would not condemn you.
I understood that you were not at fault and that the situation was the problem.
I promised that I would never stop being your friend and I kept that promise to the expense of myself.I let it go every time you hurt me.
I never meant to hurt you.

Icould not send this to you, because we have already forgiven each other and are continuing the trusting, mutual friendship we had before the hard times. Sending you this would only give you pain because you would know how much you hurt me. But I wanted to release it from my self so that the all the anger, vengefulness, and hurt would no longer be a part of me.

I forgive you with truth, with love, and with a whole heart.

I love you always,Me

I ask Forgiveness of my family, friends and colleagues if I have caused any
kind of distress or upset. I love you and I am sorry. Thank you.

Avril

I am sorry for not controlling myself and yelling. I intended to remain calm to discuss, but I failed myself and you. I'm sorry you didn't feel comfortable in the the apartment and that you felt overwhelmed. I'm sorry that I'm still very upset with the way I was treated. I'm trying to forgive you, but it's taking me some time.

~Your (ex) roommate

Dear husband,
I'm sorry I can't seem to be interested in you physically.
I love you and I think you're good-looking.
I don't know why I feel this way.
your wife

Dear A,
I'm sorry I stalked you. I thought I loved you, and I really believed the palm reader who said you'd be with me forever.
I finally realize how much hurt I caused you and your wife.
Be well and I hope you can forgive me.
L.

I'm sorry to Jennifer, Brad, Angelina, et al.

I'm sorry for my fascination with your lives, when they really are just that, YOUR lives and not anyone else's business.

Whether you swap BFs or BFFs, shave your head, refuse to wear underwear, or get arrested for DUI, it's your prerogative.

I'm sorry that the minutia of your daily existence pervades my weekend reading, and that the horrible paparazzo shot (sans makeup) makes me feel better on my darkest day. I'm sorry that I'm addicted to your melodramas like a couch potato to a bad soap opera. I'll try to understand that celebrities are real people too.

Whoops, I did it again - I bought US Weekly.

From Service-now.com

At Service-now.com, many of our employees spent years selling and building help desk software that was bound to fail and cost more than ever expected. We are sorry for the train wreck. We’ve learned from sins of the past and want to make it up to you. We’ve introduced the first IT service management software that is built on Web 2.0 technology and delivered via SaaS. We promise this is not the same legacy of customer abuse.

I would like to write a note saying that I forgive my husband. We have been having a difficult time & often I have blamed him for it. I want him to know that it is him being there for me that matters not the problems we have had. He is a good man & he needs to know that.

Google says sorry....

Lee Israel's "Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger" was featured on this morning's The TakeAway.

A review on Amazon.com reads, "Barely repentant and witheringly funny, Israel recalls her short life of literary crime as, first, the forger of signed letters by such personages as Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward, and Louise Brooks, and then, more desperately, an out-and-out thief of such documents, all for resale to dealers and collectors."

Does fessing up make someone worthy of forgiveness, or is true "repentant" attidude required?

And here it is... an apology....


"In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs," he said in a written statement. "I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness."

JOHN EDWARDS


Ok, it's not an apology yet... but we're waiting...

In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

I'd like to apologize, in advance, for yelling at you when I catch you trying to sneak extra spices into my chulent...again.

i 'm sorry for not being as sensitive to your needs as i should , and i'm also sorry that i cant make my apology look beautiful like the others on this site.