Skafish Sign Quotes & Sayings

Family secrets can go back for generations. They can be about suicides, homicides, incest, abortions, addictions, public loss of face, financial disaster, etc. All the secrets get acted out. This is the power of toxic shame. The pain and suffering of shame generate automatic and unconscious defenses. Freud called these defenses by various names: denial, idealization of parents, repression of emotions and dissociation from emotions. What is important to note is that we can't know what we don't know. Denial, idealization, repression and dissociation are unconscious survival mechanisms. Because they are unconscious, we lose touch with the shame, hurt and pain they cover up. We cannot heal what we cannot feel. So without recovery, our toxic shame gets carried for generations. — John Bradshaw

But watch out to see whether new digital technologies can betamax even the VHS. — David Rowan

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. — Barbara Kingsolver

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C. — John Zerzan

Insanity is just a state of mind. — Alan Alda

I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time . We know less about time than about anything else — Andrei Tarkovsky

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better. — Guy Kawasaki

Sometimes to choose and know they are more closely
you have to be away — Ys Sroyer