Sometimes, you have to let things go for the simple fact that they’re heavy. It takes a lot of energy to keep a grudge alive. What is forgiveness, then? It’s freedom, hope, peace, love. A gift of life... to yourself. When you forgive, you get your life back. Or rather, you get to make something new with it.

Read these words of encouragement when you need help seeing the opportunity in the struggle or uncovering the hidden meaning in the mess. When life feels like a big ball of chaos, there’s something here for you.

When your heart is in a million pieces, it feels like more than you could ever survive. But it’s calling forth an unshakable strength that you didn’t even know you had in you. If you need more strength today, read these healing thoughts. They’re light.

Meditation is a quieting of the mind (underneath all the thoughts), a settling of the body, a knowing of the soul. Read these meditation quotes to remember who you are underneath all those thoughts, and come back home to yourself. It feels so good.

Life is beautiful… even after everything. Sometimes you need to look harder to see the beauty. If you’re barely making it through today, read these quotes about life. Your resilience (and the fact that you’re still here, even after everything) is a kind of beautiful too.

Rumi is one of the most inspirational and widely-read mystical poets. He was a passionate seeker of the truth and placed great faith in living from the heart. Read these Rumi quotes about love to drop deeper into your heart. So you can feel free.

Breath is your most accessible tool for relieving (and preventing) stress. Don't take it for granted. Try these breathing exercises to face stressful situations and people with a steady hand and an open heart. It's better for your heart.

If you want to move past your mistakes, but you're not sure how, read these quotes about mistakes. They'll remind you that you're more than what happened to you. That you're human and imperfect and born for everything: every up and down, left and right, setback and comeback.

It's hard to love your life when you're mean to yourself all the time. Loving yourself isn't as easy as it sounds (but you probably know that). Yet it's rewarding, enduring, and leads to love elsewhere. If you want to love and respect yourself, but you're not sure you deserve it, read this.

If you want to know how to be happy again, first know that it’s possible. This one-minute practice can help you shift out of a bad mood and into a more positive frame of mind, no matter what's got you in a funk right now. Try it, so you can move forward.