{"id":82,"date":"2007-09-13T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/09\/13\/we-dont-have-to-let-it-ruin-our-lives-our-day-or-even-an-hour-of-our-day\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T13:47:59","slug":"we-dont-have-to-let-it-ruin-our-lives-our-day-or-even-an-hour-of-our-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t have to let it ruin our lives, our day, or even an hour of our day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If people don&#8217;t want to be with us or act healthy, it is not a reflection on <em>our <\/em>self-worth.\u00c2\u00a0 It reflects on <em>their<\/em> present circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 By practicing detachment we can lessen our destructive reactions to the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 Separate yourself from things.\u00c2\u00a0 Leave things alone, and let people be who they are.\u00c2\u00a0 Who are you to say that the interruption, mood, word, bad day, thought, or problem is not an important and necessary part of life?\u00c2\u00a0 Who are you to say that this problem won&#8217;t ultimately be beneficial to you or someone else?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>Codependent No More,<\/em> p. 65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If people don&#8217;t want to be with us or act healthy, it is not a reflection on our self-worth.\u00c2\u00a0 It reflects on their present circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 By practicing detachment we can lessen our destructive reactions to the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 Separate yourself from things.\u00c2\u00a0 Leave things alone, and let people be who they are.\u00c2\u00a0 Who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}