" A heart is made to be open – not even the heart can thrive without light and air. But just like a room full of treasures, keeping the windows and doors open means that all kinds of people will be drawn to what we keep inside, and not all of them have good intentions. Sometimes, we will get hurt.
It can be easy to think that forgiving someone means letting them back in over and over again; but forgiveness simply means that we don’t close the door - it doesn’t mean that we have to let that person loiter about. Sometimes the only way to keep that door open is to keep certain people far away from it.
The people who hurt us repetitively can become like stones that we line our pockets with, carrying them as a burden on our travels. But we must remember that carrying weight doesn’t improve the spiritual path that we’re on and it doesn’t make us more righteous; it only makes us walk a little bit slower. "

― Cristen Rodgers