Favorite Inspirational Quotes

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Barbara De Angelis

If my heart is full of anger, there’s little room, if any, for love or anything else for that matter. If I focus on the past and my anger about what happened, I can’t exactly focus on the present. All my attention lies elsewhere. And as I am learning now, my very surroundings can reflect this with the detritus of the past which overwhelms my present.

That anger eats at you making all your emotions negative, spiraling downward in negativity. Anger takes energy and uses it up making you tired. You have nothing left with which to be in the present - no energy to give to the present.

All that just goes to show that I should learn my lessons from the past, without anger, and put my energy and focus on today. It’s with today and the actions I take now that I create my tomorrow. I must put the past in the past and say, “What’s done is done.”

If I don’t want to look back on today when it is the past with loss or anger, then I must focus on today. With love in the present, I will create fond memories for what will become the past and also create a more joyful future. That’s the plan anyhow.

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