Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

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One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening. -Jocko Willink

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify! ― Henry David Thoreau

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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

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I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

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I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. - Rosie Perez

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When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life. -Jocko Willink

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

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He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

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