Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart—messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you’ll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along. ~Martha Beck

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When you forgive, you do not erase the memory. You simply choose to forgive to free yourself from the bitterness. The memory stays, not to be forgotten but to be remembered as a valuable lesson.   

~Author Unknown 

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ~Desmond Tutu

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. … Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ― Goldie Hawn

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity
all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people
want to be near you. ~Shannon L. Alder

“The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, 
success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent 
on kindness and a good heart.” ~Dalai Lama

If a tree wants to be strong, it needs a number of roots sent deep into the soil. If a tree has only one root, it may be blown over by the wind.

Look deeply into the nature of your love and find out. The happiness of the other person and your own happiness depend on the nature of your love! Of course you have love in you — but what is important is the nature of that love. All love may begin by being passionate, especially for younger people. But in the process of living together, they have to learn and practice love, so that selfishness — the tendency to possess — will diminish, and the elements of understanding and gratitude will settle in, little by little, until their love becomes nourishing, protecting, and reassuring. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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If instead of a gem, or even a flower,
we should cast the gift of a loving thought
into the heart of a friend, that would be
giving as the angels give.

~George MacDonald

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Don't carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them. ~Unknown

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” ~Steve Maraboli

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When you forgive, you do not erase the memory.
You simply choose to forgive to free yourself
from the bitterness. The memory stays,
not to be forgotten but to be remembered
as a valuable lesson.

~Author Unknown

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It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin
to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed
things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.

~Steve Maraboli