Ptsd In Civilians Quotes & Sayings

My Favorite Ring is Always the Next One — Tom Brady

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give. — Joan Didion

The aim of any practice of concentration and meditation is to free the aspirant from his usual way of thinking, feeling and being, so that he manages to become aware of himself in a manner which is totally different from the way he is normally.
This self-awareness, inaccessible to the seeker in his ordinary state of being, is closely linked with a very special inner presence which is liberating, transforming and therapeutic at the same time. — Edward Salim Michael

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie. — Thomas Tusser

Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves. — Thomas Carlyle

Well, my dear, there is love and there are stupidity and the two are quite closely related. — Nadine Sarreal

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. — John Quincy Adams

I knew that these people on their way to work or home or dinner had no idea what it was they were supporting. They did not have a clue as to what war was like. What it made people see, and what it made them do to each other. I felt as though I didn't deserve their support, or anyone's, for what I had done. No one should ever support the activities in which I had participated. No one should ever support the people who do such things. (...) They were uninformed but good people. The kind whose respect we would welcome if it was based upon something true. It was when we were around them that we had to hide the actual truth most consciously. It wasn't enough to not mention the war or being a veteran, because they'd bring it up. The civilians we were most anxious around, and therefore tended the most to avoid, were exactly those good citizens who thought they were helping us. — Jessica Goodell

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. — Joseph Addison