Too often the people who suffer from our grievances are not the people who hurt us but those who care for us today.
If we rent too much space to what went wrong, where is the space to appreciate the good in our lives? If we focus attention on past defeats, how can we give our full loving attention to our significant other, friends, or co-workers? If we remain bitter over past parenting cruelties, who suffers — our parents or our current friends and loved ones?
— Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good, p. 73
[Photo: Meersburg, Germany, June 1, 1997]