Quotes About Surviving Trauma

#1. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled

Brene Brown

#2. I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found."
"That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

Alice Hoffman

#3. People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

John Holt

#4. We've survived and are surviving events that have torn at our sense of safety with such force that we've experienced them as trauma even if we weren't directly involved.

Brene Brown

#5. Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but ... there is no such thing as Death at all.

Annie Besant

#6. Discs of umbrellas poured over suburban terraces with the smooth round ebullience of a Chopin waltz. They sat in the distance under the lugubrious dripping elms, elms like maps of Europe, elms frayed at the end like bits of chartreuse wool, elms heavy and bunchy as sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#7. The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

Zhuangzi

#8. I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

Alan Cumming

#9. It is easier to stand in front of a bullet than it is to stand up to the world.

Lori Goodwin

#10. I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

The Edge

#11. I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

Debra Winger

#12. If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

Keeley Hawes

#13. There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

Will.i.am

#14. Relax Mara," he said softly, his eyes going super warm. "I don't bite."
I wished he did. I really, really did.

Kristen Ashley

#15. Life is a game I adore. I just wish someone had given me the rule book sooner.

Dane Waters

#16. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his 'coming of age'.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

David Letterman