The Choice: Embrace the Possible

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

Doing what is right is rarely the same as doing what is safe.

to run away from the past or to fight against our present pain is to imprison ourselves.

You get to discover that living a full life is the best way to honor him.”

“But when it goes on and on, it can be a way of avoiding grief.”

“What if blaming yourself is just a way of maintaining the fantasy that the world is in your control?”

How easily the life we didn’t live becomes the only life we prize.

Maybe to heal isn’t to erase the scar, or even to make the scar. To heal is to cherish the wound.

It is too easy to make a prison out of our pain, out of the past.

You can’t heal what you can’t feel.