Mental Quotes
Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word ‘give’ is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.
Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!
Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.
Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.
Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.
A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.
Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.
Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!
Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.
You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.
At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.
When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel
Forgive me, " I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.
She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.
Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.
I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.
If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
Life’s challenges are inevitable. We have to prepare mentally by renewing our mind with inspiration daily to be able to cope when the situation arise.
They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring, And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.
What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.