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121 " We all have a choice, to pay attention to what have lost or to put attention to what we still have... "
― Edith Eger , The Choice: Embrace the Possible
122 " I can make the choice that all of us can make, I can’t ever change the past but there is a light I can safe, it is mine, the one that I am living right now… this precious moment… "
123 " Once we are recognising and taking responsibility for our feelings, we can take responsibility for our own and the dynamic that shape our relationships… as I learn in my marriage and in the relationship with my children, one of the proving ground for our freedom is how we relate to our love ones… "
124 " Only after many years did I come to understand that running away doesn’t heal pain. It makes the pain worse. "
125 " ¿Sabes? —le dije—, las madres no pueden descansar en paz a menos que sepan que las personas que han dejado atrás están aprovechando su vida plenamente. "
126 " But here I became more psychologically imprisoned than I was before. In running from the past—from my fear—I didn’t find freedom. I made a cell of my dread and sealed the lock with silence. "
127 " I finished The Choice with tears in my eyes and gratitude in my heart.” —Carol Brooks, "
128 " Just remember, no one can take away from you what you've put in your mind. "
129 " ...to find his way out of victimhood he needed to come to terms with his impotence and his power, the ways he had been injured and the ways he had hurt, his pride and his shame. The only antidote to brokenness is the whole self. "
130 " el sufrimiento es universal. Sin embargo, el victimismo es opcional. "
131 " ¿Qué más les estábamos enseñando inconscientemente a nuestros hijos acerca de la seguridad, los valores y el amor? "
132 " I believe that her inner voice of hope kept her alive, but when she lost hope she wasn’t able to keep living. "
133 " past. Her goal is nothing less than to help each of us to escape the prisons of our own minds. "
134 " When did your childhood end? I often ask my patients. "
135 " I worked to develop an inner voice that offered an alternative story. This is temporary, I’d tell myself. If I survive today, tomorrow I will be free. "
136 " Her (her mother's) fixation on her loss was like a trapdoor she would lift and fall through, an escape. "
137 " she teaches each of us to grow and create meaningful and lasting change in ourselves, in our relationships, and in our world. "
138 " Isn’t it amazing?” she said. “The worst brings out the best in us. "
139 " Viktor Frankl’s brilliant classic Man’s Search for "
140 " Magda was competitive and rebellious; I was the peacemaker, hustling between my sisters, soothing their conflicts, hiding my own thoughts. 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. It takes willpower and choice not to step back into the confining roles we mistakenly believe will keep us safe and protected. "