People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.