Motivational Quotes
You shouldn't expect anyone to give you a vision. A vision is not given, it's created, by you.
Forget the past. Look ahead, full of opportunities.
If the willingness is there, you can graciously fulfill your dream.
Trusting yourself means you believe in a higher divine power.
In the storm’s of life, you can survive by grace, faith and hope.
When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.
The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.
Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.
The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.
The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.
Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.
Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.
The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.
When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.
When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
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.