“But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.”

“I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.”

“Every war has turning points and every person too.”

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”

“Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.”