Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Cousins frames forgiveness not as a single moral act but as a continuing, risky journey—an “adventure” requiring courage, imagination, and repeated choice. The line suggests that ordinary life inevitably involves injury, disappointment, and misunderstanding, and that a meaningful life depends on learning to release resentment and repair relationships. It also implies growth: forgiveness is portrayed as dynamic and exploratory, something that changes the forgiver as much as the forgiven. In keeping with Cousins’s humanistic outlook, the quote treats forgiveness as a practical discipline for sustaining community and personal well-being rather than a purely religious obligation.