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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
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
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- Max Lucado
Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pray for the angry,
but express your prayers and intentions silently.
Saying openly to an angry person,
"I pray for you to receive inner-peace."
is almost certain to provoke an even angrier reaction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another
is a thing which has never yet existed,
from the greatest confederacy of nations
down to a town meeting or a vestry.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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