When you are hurt...

When people:

• Create problems when there are none.
• Talk behind your back, rather than to your face.
• Choose self righteousness when speaking with you.
• Walk out of your life and feign victim mentality.
• Judge you without knowing you.
• Judge you once knowing you.
• Play the holier-than-thou card incessantly.
• You thought would be there, aren’t.
• Choose lies over truth.
• Are passive aggressive.
• Choose cruelness over kindness.
• Hurt you without reason (as if there is ever a reason to hurt someone.)
• Pretend like you never existed.
• Take but rarely give.

Remember:

• A friendship that ended never really began.
• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
• Don’t stress about the people from your past. There’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.
• I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
• I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.
• If someone wants to be part of your life, they’ll make an effort to be in it.
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
• Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
• The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
• No person is your friend if he demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those who still love even though they've been hurt before.

Live your life with forgiveness, compassion and kindness, for yourself and for others.  Choose to rise above the hurt in your heart and know that you are a good person with good intentions.  Know that you have a place in this world, a mission.  Be confident in the fact that there is a positive reason you are on this earth and that you are part of the greatest love of all, God.  Celebrate the lessons that living life with an open, innocent and adventurous heart has taught you.

Hold your head high – beautiful soul.

Choose Love always – in all ways.