When you hold onto resentment, you end up hurting yourself far more than the person who has hurt you. The amount of energy it takes to hate someone is exhausting.  It keeps you from being present with others and from fully engaging in life. Harboring resentment may make you feel better in the short term, but in the long run, it only consumes and debilitates you. It doesn’t teach the person who wronged you a lesson. It doesn’t effectively communicate why what was done was wrong. It doesn’t help the person to understand your hurt. It doesn’t erase your pain or undo the situation. All it does is keep you stuck. In order to find peace and heal your wounds, you have to let go of your resentment. Letting go doesn’t mean you’re condoning what happened. It doesn’t mean forgetting or ignoring your pain. Letting go isn’t about winning or losing. It doesn’t mean that you’re giving up or giving in. It isn’t about loss or defeat. Letting go is about freeing yourself. It’s about learning and growing from your pain and using it to lift you higher. It means releasing the things from your past that no longer serve you in order to open yourself up to a better and brighter future. Acknowledge what happened, feel your feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go. Resentment is a chain that weighs us down. In order to spread your wings and fly to freedom, you have to unchain yourself. You’ve been hurting for long enough. It’s time to let go. It’s time to fly.

When you hold onto resentment, you end up hurting yourself far more than the person who has hurt you.

The amount of energy it takes to hate someone is exhausting. 

It keeps you from being present with others and from fully engaging in life.

Harboring resentment may make you feel better in the short term, but in the long run, it only consumes and debilitates you.

It doesn’t teach the person who wronged you a lesson.

It doesn’t effectively communicate why what was done was wrong.

It doesn’t help the person to understand your hurt.

It doesn’t erase your pain or undo the situation.

All it does is keep you stuck.

In order to find peace and heal your wounds, you have to let go of your resentment.

Letting go doesn’t mean you’re condoning what happened.

It doesn’t mean forgetting or ignoring your pain.

Letting go isn’t about winning or losing.

It doesn’t mean that you’re giving up or giving in.

It isn’t about loss or defeat.

Letting go is about freeing yourself.

It’s about learning and growing from your pain and using it to lift you higher.

It means releasing the things from your past that no longer serve you in order to open yourself up to a better and brighter future.

Acknowledge what happened, feel your feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

Resentment is a chain that weighs us down.

In order to spread your wings and fly to freedom, you have to unchain yourself.

You’ve been hurting for long enough.

It’s time to let go.

It’s time to fly.

9 June 55
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