Casgrain Collections Quotes & Sayings

We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship. — Bram Stoker

We have All our own Way and Thoughts about Life, please wake up — Jan Jansen

It's a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent. — Beatrice Sparks

I wondered how many voices there were living in my head, and how they could all have such different opinions. — Alexander Gordon Smith

In avoiding any situations reminiscent of the past trauma, or any initiative that might involve future planning and risk, traumatized people deprive themselves of those new opportunities for successful coping that might mitigate the effect of the traumatic experience. Thus, constrictive symptoms, though they may represent an attempt to defend against overwhelming emotional states, exact a high price for whatever protection they afford. They narrow and deplete the quality of life and ultimately perpetuate the effects of the traumatic event. — Judith Lewis Herman

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. — Bob Woodward

Opportunists are promoted, realists are co-opted, idealists are frightened and radicals are shot. — Heather Marsh

The drama is a great revealer of life. — George Pierce Baker

When children have shame-based parents, they identify with them. This is the first step in the child's internalizing shame because the children carry their parent's shame. ABANDONMENT: THE LEGACY OF BROKEN MUTUALITY Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one's authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically. Children cannot know who they are without reflective mirrors. Mirroring is done by one's primary caregivers and is crucial in the first years of life. Abandonment includes the loss of mirroring. Parents who are shut down emotionally (all shame-based parents) cannot mirror and affirm their children's emotions. — John Bradshaw

Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin — Robin McKinley

I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air. — Cyrano De Bergerac

Relax. We're exactly where we're supposed to be. If not, we'd have seen a roadblock. Take a deep breath and relax. — Chariss K. Walker