Quote of the Day - 4/4

What does this toxic waste look like in our lives? For some people it seeps out as anger. In other people it smells like depression. For others, it reeks of low self-esteem. It can show up in many different ways, sometimes doing damage before we even realize it has reappeared.

You can have success on the outside, but if you are bitter on the inside, it's going to spoil and taint every victory. You must deal with the inside first. You must get to the root of the problem; then you can really be happy. Then you can experience true, untainted, unalloyed victory in your life.

You may be thinking, "I can't do it. It's too hard. I just can't forgive. They hurt me too badly."

Wait a minute! You are not forgiving for their sake, you are forgiving for your sake. You are forgiving so that the poison doesn't continue to contaminate your life. If somebody has done you a great wrong, don't allow them to continue to hurt you by hanging on to it. You're not hurting them at all. You're only hurting yourself.

When we hold on to poison from the past, we are only hurting ourselves. We are not hurting anybody else. We need to forgive so we can be free. Forgive so you can be made whole.


You need to forgive so you can be free. Forgive so you can be happy. Forgive so you can get out of that bondage. We have to remember, when we forgive we are not doing it just for the other person, we are doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we are doing is building walls of separation. We think we are protecting ourselves, but we're not. We are simply shutting other people out of our lives. We become isolated, alone, warped and imprisoned by our own bitterness. Those walls are not merely keeping people out; those walls are keeping you penned in.

Excerpts from Your Best Life Now