17 Quotes by Edith Eva Eger

Even rest is fragile. I am afraid all the time. I am afraid of what has already happened. And of what could happen.

You can't change what happened, you can't change what you did or what was done to you. But you can choose how you live now.My precious, you can choose to be free.

What happened can never be forgotten and can never be changed. But over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past. I can be miserable, or I can be hopeful – I can be depressed, or I can be happy. We always have that choice, that opportunity for control.

The irony of freedom is that it is harder to find hope and purpose. Now i must come to terms with the fact that anyone i marry won’t know my parents. If i ever have children, they won’t know their grandparents. It isn’t just my own loss that hurts. It’s the way it ripples out into the future.

Things aren’t important, but beauty is.

To forgive is to grieve – for what happened, for what didn’t happen – and to give up the need for a different past. To accept life as it was and it is.

How easily we can make even the warmth and safety of family into a kind of prison. We rely on our old coping mechanisms. We become the person we think we need to be to please others.

Just remember, no one can take away from you what you’ve put in your own mind.