The Return

by Nicholas Sparks

Life endlessly offers us chances to set new directions and in the process we grow and change; when we look in the rearview mirror, we catch a glimpse of former selves who sometimes seem unrecognizable.

I’ve come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

Because who is ever really fixed when it comes to mental or emotional health? Life takes radical twists and turns, and hopes and dreams shift as people enter different phases of their lives.

we’re all continual works in progress.

Therapy, I’ve come to learn, is less about navel-gazing conversation than it is about learning habits for successful

living, and then, most importantly, putting them into practice.

guilt is simply an emotion, and like all emotions, it will eventually pass. Unless you choose to hold on to it.”