Edith Eva Eger

The only place where we can exercise our freedom of choice is in the present.

“The worst brings out the best in us.”

But over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past.

When we don’t allow ourselves to grieve our losses, wounds, and disappointments, we are doomed to keep reliving them.

Often, the little upsets in our lives are emblematic of the larger losses; the seemingly insignificant worries are representative of greater pain.

They are all we have left to understand the story we have come to tell ourselves about who we are.

Maybe every life is a study of the things we don’t have but wish we did, and the things we have but wish we didn’t.

Our relationship is like a bridge we can cross from present worries to future joys.

I’m caught between the urge to protect my parents and the sorrow that they can no longer protect me.

We don’t know where we’re going. We don’t know what’s going to happen. Just remember, no one can take away from you what you’ve put in your mind.”