“It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.”

“Do not feel bad because of it.  It's impossible to go through life unscathed.  Nor should you want to.  By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishment.”

“By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments..”

“Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.”

“We are what we are meant to be, and if we are kind and good, then we should not let our shortcomings poison our accomplishments.”

“All our lives we measure ourselves based on our height, but during a crisis we should measure ourselves in-depth.”