Your biggest problems and deepest fears all have one thing in common: they feel incredibly real to you, right now. This is part of what makes them problems and fears, to begin with. But this happens to be both the lock on your prison cell, and the key to your freedom.
And I think it's something we must contend with...that at the center of our most cherished insistences, lies a spirit that we may barter with, but bear no hope of ever owning.
We forgive the naïvety of our youth. For they forgive all of the things we are instead.
It’s not the things we do that we live to regret, but rather the things that we never did. A mistake can be forgiven, but life un-lived is not so easily forgotten.