Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.