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You can choose to be free (Edith Eger)

APhoto by  Aziz Acharki  on  Unsplash I can't heal you - or anyone - but I can celebrate your choice to dismantle the prison in your mind, brick by brick. You can't change what happened, you can't change what you did, or what was done to you. But you can choose how you live now: My precious, you can choose to be free. Edith Eger

Taking risks doesn't mean throwing ourselves blindly into danger. But it means embracing our fears so that we aren't imprisoned by them (Edith Eger)

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When you can't go in through a door, go in through a window (Ilona - Edith Eger's mum)

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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind (Marcel Proust)

Photo by  Iulia Mihailov  on  Unsplash Reading The Choice , the extraordinary autobiography of Edith Eger, brought this quote came to mind.

I go dancing once a week. I live in the present and I think young. I'm kind of celebrating every moment (Edith Eger)

Edith Eger - age 90, still working as a psychologist, Auschwitz survivor.