Our spouses, our friends, our family, our neighbors, even the strangers crossing our paths, must be who they are, not who we think they should be. They must make their own mistakes and, through what they learn, have reason to celebrate their own successes.
There are many reasons for letting go of this futile behavior, but the most important ones are that we will never succeed in controlling others and never experience peace in our own lives if we are always focused on how other people are living or how we think they should be living. If we want to be peaceful, we must let go of how others choose to live and take care of business in one life only: our own.
— Karen Casey, Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow, p. 9-10