Roberta Sorenson

“There is no path toward oneself that leads away from the pain.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“Our partners do not belong to us; they are only on loan, with an option to renew—or not. Knowing that we can lose them does not have to undermine commitment; rather, it mandates an active engagement that long-term couples often lose. The realization that our loved ones are forever elusive should jolt us out of complacency, in the most positive sense.”
― Esther Perel, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

“In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us