You never know when the right words of encouragement will come along and give you a much needed boost. Here are five thoughtful and inspiring quotes from around the web.
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No more apologies. ⠀ ⠀ Not one more. ⠀ ⠀ You are not on this earth to be a living apology. ⠀ ⠀ None of us are. ⠀ ⠀ Yes. We fuck up. Every last one of us. ⠀ ⠀ And yes, there is grounding to be found in committing to the hard and holy work of trying to make it right. ⠀ ⠀ There is also deep wisdom in knowing that sometimes there isn’t a right to be made. ⠀ ⠀ Whatever it is that you’ve done. ⠀ ⠀ Whatever weight you are carrying. ⠀ ⠀ Whatever breach of your own integrity you’ve lived through. ⠀ ⠀ Here you are. Living in the guilt and self-flagellation and inward-directed recrimination. You’re telling stories about yourself where you’re painted the villian, every single time. ⠀ ⠀ So, you did a thing that you’ve named wrong, or the world has named wrong, or a loved one has named wrong or some powerful dudes who compiled a book of parables and myths thousands of years ago made wrong. ⠀ ⠀ How entirely human of you. ⠀ ⠀ Own it all. ⠀ ⠀ Stand in the truth of it. ⠀ ⠀ Make the apology you need to make to close your own open wound. ⠀ ⠀ Do what you can to stanch the flow of blood in the others. ⠀ ⠀ And then be done. ⠀ ⠀ Listen to me, now. ⠀ ⠀ Atonement was never intended to be a full-time job. ⠀ ⠀ There is nothing to be gained by carrying your own apology until it threatens to bury you under its weight. ⠀ ⠀ Warning: the people and structures in your life may not be comfortable with your sudden refusal to continue with your guilty confessional. ⠀ ⠀ Yes, it is true. ⠀ ⠀ Sometimes the one thing that others cannot handle is your refusal to apologize even one more time. ⠀ ⠀ But it is done, whatever it is. ⠀ ⠀ Because it is now a part of your bone and heart and guts and it has changed you. ⠀ ⠀ Because in some inexplicable way, you are better for it. ⠀ ⠀ Because you finally even like it there, like what it has made of you, as much as it may have broken. ⠀ ⠀ Because even if you don’t understand why, you needed it the way it was and the way it is, no matter the fallout. ⠀ ⠀ Because owning the damage caused does not mean that you must spend your life cleaning it up over and over again, in some groundhog day spiral of guilt. ⠀ ⠀ {continued in comments}
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