Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself
Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you
Whatever you’re facing right now, there’s a way out
Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again
While you can’t control someone’s negative behavior, you can control how long you participate in it
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.
If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won
Sometimes it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.
Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, ‘I wish I could play well already – or just stop.’ But it’s too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive
It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined
A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.
The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
An empath is an emotional sponge. They absorb the stress and also the positive emotions into their own bodies from other people
Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are
Healing doesn’t usually spring up instantaneously, instead it manifests itself in small yet delightful doses of “normal
Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
If you attach to the negative behavior of others it brings you down to their level
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. The truth is that time does not heal anything. It merely passes. It is what we do during the passing of time that helps or hinders the healing process
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ”mangled mind” leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict
If a person finds negative people in his life, then he needs to mend his own nature than that of others, for his own basic grounding decides the level of acidic or toxicity surrounding him
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open – into the light, out of the darkness
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
It’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between
The word “frustration” is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one’s destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size… You were not created to settle for less
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.
Hey you, keep living. It won’t always be this overwhelming.
We don’t get to choose our family, but we can choose our friends. With courage, we can weed out narcissistic people. We can focus on those who do appreciate us, love us, and treat us with respect
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces
When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better
The ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you’ll find other beautiful things to fill your days with
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all — but loving only himself
You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination
I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet
When we meet and fall into the gravitational pull of a narcissist, we are entering a significant life lesson that involves learning how to create boundaries, self-respect, and resilience. Through trial and error (and a lot of pain), our connection with narcissists teaches us the necessary lessons we need to become mature empaths
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
We all have those toxic people around us that make our lives miserable… The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them
Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, letgo of them. I tie no weights to my ankles
Don’t let people get the best of you they can say what they want but don’t let that distract you from achieving your goals
Once you choose hope, anything is possible.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success
It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage
It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces
The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.
Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us
Realize that narcissists have an addiction disorder. They are strongly addicted to feeling significant. Like any addict, they will do whatever it takes to get this feeling often. That is why they are manipulative and future fakers. They promise change, but can’t deliver if it interferes with their addiction. That is why they secure back up supply.
Love doesn’t die a natural death. Love has to be killed, either by neglect or narcissism
It’s a great day to be alive. I know the sun’s still shining when I close my eyes
We can influence a person and actually change a person’s thinking by the words we use. We can show kindness and empathy by the phrases we use and the actions we take
Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself
Explain your anger instead of expressing it, and you’ll find solutions instead of arguments
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose
Joyce Meyer, Power Thoughts: 12 Strategies To Win the Battle of the Mind "Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in one drop.
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it
Empathy is an important and valuable skill to have in many aspects in life. Not only does it contribute to strong bonds and general trust, but it allows us to gain insight of the emotions and thoughts of other people. In a sense, it offers you a chance to experience life the way someone else does
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy
Invalidation is about dismissing your experiences, thoughts and above all your emotions. Indeed the intention is to not even allow you to have those thoughts, experiences and emotions. It’s a way of invading your head and reprogramming it. It’s psychological abuse (messing with your thoughts) and emotional abuse (messing with your feelings)
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way
Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail
Trying to please everyone is a recipe for stress, misery, and frustration. Be yourself. It’ll be good to know who’s down with that
Healing requires from us to stop struggling, but to enjoy life more and endure it less
Looking back at the times where I allowed my work to create stress and frustration in my life, I now realize what I thought was important really was not. I am not saying you should not take your work seriously, what I am saying is that we need to realize that life is all about balance
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.