The Daily Stoic · 2026-09-09 · 27 min · 5,504 words

How To Forgive When They’re Not Sorry | It’s Not a Principle Unless It Costs You Something

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. How to forgive? When they're not sorry.

It would be nice if they got it. They understood. How they hurt us. What it meant to us. And maybe they will.

Someday. But in the meantime, are you gonna keep carrying around that pain, keep burning with resentment, keep waiting? Unfulfilled? You don't control whether they understand what they did, Stopes would say. You don't control if someone is really sorry or if they feel bad.

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