Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.