{"quotes":[{"text":"Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.","author":"Brittany Burgunder","tags":["believe-in-yourself","best-gifts-in-life","brittany-burgunder","choose-wisely","forgive-yourself","forgiveness","how-to-be-happy","how-to-be-happy-in-life","inspirational","life-experience","life-lessons","life","love-yourself","love-yourself-first","motivational","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","self-motivation","truth","your-life"],"id":5563,"author_id":"Brittany+Burgunder"},{"text":"You ought to forgive.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","believe-in-god","christian","despair","disappointment","forgive","forgive-yourself","forgiveness","happy-soul","hopeful","inspirational-life","joyful-living","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","praying","purposeful-living","religion","self-love","spiritual-sayings"],"id":12479,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.","author":"Omoakhuana Anthonia","tags":["christian-life","christian-living","christian","forgive-and-forget","forgive-yourself","forgiven","forgiveness","forgiveness-and-letting-go","forgiveness-and-love","forgiveness","love","love"],"id":26447,"author_id":"Omoakhuana+Anthonia"},{"text":"Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment?\tWe say, “Well, this ____ and that ____ happened, so it makes perfect sense for me to be feeling like this ____ and wanting to do this ____.”\tYet, to this day, I have never met a happy person who adheres to those excuses. In fact, each time I – or anyone else – decide to give in to “rational excuses” that justify feeling bad – it’s interesting that only further suffering is the result.\tThere is never a good enough reason for us to be out of alignment with peace. Sure, we can go there and make choices that dim our lights… and that is fine; there certainly is purpose for it and the contrast gives us lessons to learn… yet if we’re aware of what we are doing and we’re ready to let go of the suffering – then why go there at all? It’s like beating a dead horse. Been there, done that… so why do we keep repeating it?\tPain is going to happen; it’s inevitable in this human experience, yet it is often so brief. When we make those excuses, what happens is: we pick up that pain and begin to carry it with us into the next day… and the next day… into next week… maybe next month… and some of us even carry it for years or to our graves!\tForgive, let it go! It is NOT worth it! It is NEVER worth it. There is never a good enough reason for us to pick up that pain and carry it with us. There is never a good enough reason for us to be out of alignment with peace. Unforgiveness hurts you; it hurts others, so why even go there? Why even promote pain? Why say painful things to yourself or others? Why think pain? Just let it go!\tWhenever I look back on painful things or feel pain today, I know it is my EGO that drives me to “go there.” The EGO likes to have the last word, it likes to feel superior, it likes to make others feel less than in hopes that it will make itself (me) feel better about my insecurities. Maybe if I hurt them enough, they will feel the pain I felt over what they did to me. It’s only fair! It’s never my fault; it’s always someone else’s. There is a twisted sense of pleasure I get from feeling this way, and my EGO eats it right up. YET! With awareness that continues to grow and expand each day, I choose to not feed my pain (EGO) or even go there. I still feel it at times, of course, so I simply acknowledge it and then release it.\tI HAVE power and choice over my speech and actions. I do not need to ever “go there” again. It’s my choice; it’s your choice. So it’s about damn time we start realizing this. We are not victims of our impulses or emotions; we have the power to control them, and so it’s time to stop acting like we don’t. It’s time to relinquish the excuses.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["consciousness","ego","emotions-and-attitude","forgive-yourself","forgiveness","growth","happiness","impulse","impulse-control","inner-peace","inspirational","intention","introspection","letting-go","moving-forward","moving-on","pain","power","psychology","releasing-the-past","self-control","self-development","self-discipline","self-improvement","spiritual","wisdom","zen"],"id":39719,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.","author":"Genevieve Gerard","tags":["forgive-yourself","forgiveness","forgiveness","forgiving-others","forgiving-yourself","about-forgiveness"],"id":44264,"author_id":"Genevieve+Gerard"},{"text":"Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don’t be ashamed of the things that you’ve done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don’t you see? All of those things helped shape you into the beautiful person that you are today! Hold your head up high because you didn’t allow your past mistakes to consume you. You learned! You conquered! You became a better YOU. Be proud of who you are TODAY!","author":"Stephanie Lahart","tags":["encouraging","forgive-yourself","life","mindset","mistakes","motivation","motivational","moving-forward","moving-on-and-letting-go","new-beginning","past","positive-attitude","positive","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts","self","self-love","stephanie-lahart","stephanie-lahart"],"id":59217,"author_id":"Stephanie+Lahart"},{"text":"Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...Forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad' decisions you may have made in the past. Do not allow others opinions or judgements of who you were yesterday or decades ago define who you are today. Each and every day opens new doors for miracles of healing to occur in our lives. Embrace these miracles, big or small, even those you may presently be unaware of. Live in this moment, for this is all we have. Give thanks to your Higher Power for all that you are, for the very breath that allows life, love, and abundance to flow to you and through you forever more. Live in the Light of All That IS..","author":"Angie karan","tags":["angie-karan","believe","believe-in-yourself","embrace-you","forgive-yourself","forgiveness","gratitude","healing","higher-power","live-in-the-light-of-all-that-is","miracles"],"id":68056,"author_id":"Angie+karan"},{"text":"The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance.","author":"Rebecca O’Dwyer","tags":["acceptance","forgive-yourself","forgiveness"],"id":78119,"author_id":"Rebecca+O%E2%80%99Dwyer"},{"text":"Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.","author":"Josee D'Amore","tags":["forgive-others","forgive-yourself","forgiven","forgiveness","forgiving","how-to-forgive"],"id":115595,"author_id":"Josee+D%27Amore"},{"text":"When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["fix-yourself","forgive-yourself","forgiveness","healing","self-forgiveness","toxic-thinking"],"id":133679,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}