Today is a good day to break free from your emotional bondage. Break free from your emotional chains shackling you to past hurts and grievances. Yes, it's true that certain situations and people caused you grief in the past. However, make no mistake, you, only you are keeping the wounds fresh and bleeding, preventing healing by holding on to your hurts. 

Learn to forgive yourself as well as others. Release all feelings of guilt. Know that holding on to past hurts is not in alignment with your higher self. Remember, mistakes are opportunities for growth. Learn from the lesson's life teaches you and do not allow regret to trick you into dwelling on them forever.  

You are not your mistakes. Do not allow them to define you. Intentionally focus on forgiving and forgetting past hurts. Stop clinging to your pain. Is it really helping you to persist in dwelling on past hurts, resentments and anger?  

Recognise that acceptance and forgiveness of the faults and flaws in yourself and others are indicative of true strength. Do not be overly critical of other people's mistakes and shortcomings. Instead cultivate empathy and remember when you judge others it will ricochet back to you. Be honest about what you are hoarding in your heart. Know that holding onto your little miseries are only hurting you. You are the orchestrator of your own suffering, by allowing yesterday's hurts to accompany you. Recognise that you are suffering needlessly, since it is your decision to wear yesterday's hurts like a garment. Clinging to past hurts is preventing you from embracing a fresh start. 

Trust in life. Do not ascribe to the concept that life is hard, instead believe that the Divine wants you to have a good life. Trust that the universe will conspire to help you live your best possible life. Therefore, release the anger, resentment and pain that is weighing down your heart so that you can harness a happier future. Your authentic self knows that you deserve better. Do what your heart and soul desires as it is directly connected to your authentic true self. 

Help yourself by mastering the art of letting go of past hurts and grievances. This will allow you to move forward lighter and brighter for letting go of feelings that hurt only you, not your transgressors. I trust that these quotes will allow you to liberate yourself from these emotional shackles and allow you to soar into your future unburdened by past events and hurts. 

Do not judge yourself too harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world - Buddha 

You are not your mistakes, so learn not to let your mistakes define you. Practice being compassionate and forgiving with yourself. This will allow you to be more accepting and forgiving of other people's shortcomings. 

Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head - Ann Landers 

When holding onto a grievance you are letting the transgressor cloud your everyday, when they have long forgotten about you. Let go. 

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday - Steve Maraboli 

Understand that today is a new day, yesterday is gone, it's history. Do not allow yesterday’s mishaps to cloud this brand-new day. Let it go. Today. Is. Brand. New. Treat it as such. 

You have to let go of who you are to become who you will be - Candace Bushnell 

You cannot grow without changing, progress is dependent on change, therefore learn to embrace change, not fear it. Growth, your growth in particular is the very reason for your life journey. It shapes you into who you are meant to be. 

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future - Paul Boose 

Recognise that you cannot do anything about yesterday's wrongs so let go of the pain as it is robbing you not only of the joy and love which today offers, but also future joys.