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Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it, we can never do

Anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair;
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel

Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people

Who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration.

Forgiveness means cleansing your soul of the bitterness

Of ‘what might have been,’ ‘what should have been,’

And ‘what didn’t have to happen.’

Someone has defined forgiveness as ‘giving up all hope

Of having had a better past.’

What’s past is past and there is little to be gained by

Dwelling on it. There are perhaps no sadder people then

The men and women who have a grievance against the

World because of something that happened years ago

And have let that memory sour their view of life ever since.

- Harold S. Kushner