Sublime

But you can choose how you live now. My precious, you can choose to be free.

used to ask, Why me? Why did I survive? I have learned to ask a different question: Why not me? Standing on a stage surrounded by the next generation of freedom fighters, I could see in my conscious awareness something that is often elusive, often invisible: that to run away from the past or to fight against our present pain is to imprison ourselve

painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.

These are lost children looking for an identity, looking for a way to feel strength, to feel like they matter.

Maybe to heal isn’t to erase the scar, or even to make the scar. To heal is to cherish the wound.

‘We don’t know where we’re going, we don’t know what’s going to happen, but no one can take away from you what you put in your own mind.’ ”