The past is irreparable; the future is always available. In every case, when good dreams shatter, better ones are there to newly value and pursue. . . .
No matter what happens in life, a wonderful dream is available, always, that if pursued will generate an unfamiliar, radically new internal experience. That experience, strange at first, will eventually be recognized as joy.
— Larry Crabb, Shattered Dreams, p. 53-54