Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of security. But in fact, we are held hostage by our anger. It is never too late to forgive. But you can forgive too soon. I am especially wary of what I call saintly forgiveness. Premature forgiveness is common among people who avoid conflict. They're afraid of their own anger and the anger of others. But their forgiveness is false. Their anger goes underground. I define forgiving as letting someone back into your heart. This returns us to a loving state -- and not merely within the relationship -- we feel good about ourselves and the world. True forgiveness isn't easy, but it transforms us significantly. To forgive is to love and to feel worthy of love. In that sense, it is always worthwhile.
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
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One always dies too soon—or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing othe...
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Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
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Andrea is a good shooter. We were told not to shoot too soon. Andrea showed a lot of maturity. Everyone really stepped up. This is so amazing. I am so proud.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
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Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart...
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.
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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
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Warren returned—too soon, it seemed to her, Slipped to her side, caught up her hand and waited....
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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.
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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
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Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
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The 'Dome is home for them, ... For residents, another immediate relocation is simply too much, too soon.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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