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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Forgiveness Good Philosophy Understand
Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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Alone Human Person Relationship
We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Break Hard Heart Broken Philosophy
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Deep Family God Yourself
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Discover Hard Heart Broken Joy Philosophy Save
We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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Community Human Life Myself Person Philosophy
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream to find out why they’re falling in.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

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