Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
