Guarire Il Quotes & Sayings

How much of what we think of as an admirable response to trauma - the "stiff upper lip" - is actually dissociation, the mind's attempt to protect us from experiences that are too painful to digest? I can recall the facts, at least some of them. But I don't feel very much. At least, the feelings I have are not kind. They are not sympathetic toward my fifteen-year-old self. It happened. It happens to a lot of women. I survived. Most women do. I am "strong," but in those moments of strength, I don't feel. I will admit that I am very afraid of one thing. Not just afraid. Ashamed. I am afraid that I am incapable of love. (11) — Jessica Stern

If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost. — Bertolt Brecht

I had never seen so many stars shimmering in the sky ever before. It pleased me. — Devanshi Gupta

The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken? — Emily Thorne

It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic. — S.E. Hinton

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well. — Jami Attenberg

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. — George Eliot

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent. — Mohsin Hamid

I love the world that is my room. — Jennifer Niven

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance. — George Herbert

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions. — John C. Maxwell

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind. — Joseph Addison

Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment. — Stephen Richards