Mariaroza Opperman

“How easily a life can become a litany of guilt and regret, a song that keeps echoing with the same chorus, with the inability to forgive ourselves. How easily the life we didn’t live becomes the only life we prize. How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control, that we were ever in control, that the things we could or should have done or said have the power, if only we had done or said them, to cure pain, to erase suffering, to vanish loss. How easily we can cling to—worship—the choices we think we could or should have made.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice

“Our painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice

“You can live to avenge the past, or you can live to enrich the present.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“The hardest person to forgive is someone I’ve still to confront: myself.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice