Na'ama Yehuda Quotes & Sayings

Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills; love heals. — Na'ama Yehuda

It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face. — Na'ama Yehuda

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island. — Na'ama Yehuda

I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths just as true but somehow less favorable to telling. — Na'ama Yehuda

Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination. — Na'ama Yehuda

If not in the moment, where do you propose to live? — Na'ama Yehuda

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could. — Na'ama Yehuda

Death is just another path to take, as real as morning. — Na'ama Yehuda

Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking. — Na'ama Yehuda

The only things that last are love and hate. The only one that matters is love: Choose love. Hate erodes. Love nourishes.. — Na'ama Yehuda

You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light. — Na'ama Yehuda

When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow. — Na'ama Yehuda

Today, make time to play. — Na'ama Yehuda

Be happy for things that work. — Na'ama Yehuda

Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in. — Na'ama Yehuda

An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from. — Na'ama Yehuda