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If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
by Sheri Rosenthal

If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
-Sheri Rosenthal

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Today, I say yes to forgiving.
I commit to being for-giving love
and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Sheri Rosenthal

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most of us believe that we have
been betrayed by someone outside of us -
in other words someone has done something to hurt us,
been dishonest or broken a promise made:
some trust in some concept was broken.
Indeed someone may have taken an action
that took only their needs into consideration,
they may have not followed through on a promise made,
and they may have not told you the truth.
But their actions have nothing to do with you
and have everything to do with them.
That's why no one can do anything TO you.
They can take actions that involve you that you may not like -
according to your point of view.
But you are not a victim, no way, no how.
- Sheri Rosenthal

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

 

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield


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