To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the impossible.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
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Nicholas Sparks
Hearts are breakable, " Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
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Cassandra Clare
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and...
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Jocelyn Soriano
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path...
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Osho
More Quotes By Diane Mandt Langberg
To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the impossible.
The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at the age of three! ). Nonprotecting parents are "tired and busy." The survivor makes a giant leap forward when [he or...
Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts, " "crazy, " or "weird." Unless her responses are understood within the context of trauma. A traumatic stress reaction consists of *natural* emotions and behaviors in response to a catastrophe, its...
One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed repeatedly for the abuse: "If you weren't such a whore, this wouldn't have to happen." Each time she is used and trashed, she...
