Karen Salmansohn Quotes

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain’t easy, it’s the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it's up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.

Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.

You have to realize that myself and others that have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, we've dealt with the situation. You realize that you're not going to survive in prison or progress as a human being if you allow yourself to continue to hold on to this negative energy.

Me holding a grudge is not going to help me. It's not going to make me any better.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.