Discern Related Quotes & Sayings

Normal memory gradually fades into the past. Traumatic and repressed memories have a tendency to linger around. They are splintered into fragments during overwhelming events experienced as a child. Images, sensations, emotions, and beliefs are torn apart. These disconnected pieces can later erupt into consciousness as separate "memories." These fragments may surface in the form of explicit memories, which are frighteningly vivid snapshot or video-like images of traumatic experiences; or they may surface as implicit memories, which include physical sensations, emotions, or beliefs that were part of the original traumatic experiences. When implicit fragments emerge into the present without an accompanying visually explicit memory, it is very hard to discern that these feelings of anxiety, fear, shame, rage, numbness, and loneliness are related to prior trauma. — Connie A. Lofgreen

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man. — Ned Beatty

Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about. — Patrick Ness

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff. — Gloria Votsis

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience. — Bel Powley

When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni) — Louis Sachar

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates

In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep ... — Barbara G. Walker

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever. — Therese Of Lisieux

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something. — Zach Galifianakis

PS ... ... confused from where you should start planning ... ... . !! Well, start from who you are, where you are and how you are. — Sameh Elsayed

The middle ages did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the universe [is] a harmonious whole whose parts are related to one another. It was the responsibility of the author or scholar to discern these rational relationships
of hierarchy, or of chronology, or of similarities and differences, and so forth. — Matthew Battles

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us. — Thomas Goodwin