Self Help Quotes
When you think you can, you will have the grace take action.
If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
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.
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 practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
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.
What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.
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.
Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
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.
This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
Struggles are part of everyday life. May you have grace to overcome any struggle.
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.
Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!
The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
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.
If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
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.
All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.
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.
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.
Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
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.
Remember that the one person who can make you joyous and happy is YOU! You do not have to put the key to your own happiness in someone else's pocket!
No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself.