Empowering Quotes Quotes

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.

~ Stephen Richards

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.

~ Stephen Richards

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

~ Stephen Richards

The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

~ Stephen Richards

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

~ Stephen Richards

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

~ Stephen Richards

Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.

~ Stephen Richards

A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.

~ Stephen Richards

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.

~ Stephen Richards

You are simply naturally inclined to make mistakes just as everyone else is, whether male or female, black or white, young or old. These mistakes are your school of learning, therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

~ Stephen Richards

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

~ Stephen Richards

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

~ Stephen Richards

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

~ Stephen Richards

Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, “Today I am going to be rich,” does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

~ Stephen Richards

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

~ Stephen Richards

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.

~ Stephen Richards

The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.

~ Stephen Richards

Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.

~ Stephen Richards

Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!

~ Stephen Richards

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

~ Stephen Richards

The world is full of victims; don’t add to the growing culture of “I’ve a story to tell”, well not unless it’s a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.

~ Stephen Richards

Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.

~ Stephen Richards

Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It’s amazing what ‘sleeping on it’ can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

~ Stephen Richards

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

~ Stephen Richards

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.

~ Stephen Richards

You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!

~ Stephen Richards

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!

~ Stephen Richards

The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

~ Stephen Richards

What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.

~ Stephen Richards

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

~ Stephen Richards

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

~ Stephen Richards

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

~ Stephen Richards

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

~ Stephen Richards

Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.

~ Stephen Richards

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.

~ Stephen Richards

Be that person with grit. Remain dedicated, determined and strong in the face of adversity!

~ Jerry Gladstone

Stay strong, be a warrior and keep moving forward under any and all conditions.

~ Jerry Gladstone