Trauma-Resonant Quotes

These all resonated with me on various levels during the healing process, so I thought I'd leave them here. To begin: "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them." Aldous Huxley

Albert Einstein: "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

Alexander Pope: "To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

Alice Walker Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Ambrose Bierce When you doubt, abstain.

Anne Frank How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anthony Hopkins My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Aristotle: Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle: Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Aristotle: There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Arnold H. Glasow: A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Benjamin Franklin: Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Bernard Meltzer: When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Bertrand Russell: The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bill Gates: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bob Marley: Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Bruce Lee: Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Buddha: Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Carl Jung: Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Carly Simon: A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Charles de Gaulle: Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Chuck Palahniuk: Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Colin Powell: Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Erich Fromm: The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

George Bernard Shaw: We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Helen Keller: Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Henry Ford: Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Jack London: He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.

Lord Byron: If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Louis D. Brandeis: If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Mahatma Gandhi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mitch Hedberg: My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Pamela Hansford Johnson: The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Plato: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Robert Fulghum: Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Theodore Sturgeon: There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

Thomas J. Watson: Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Thomas Jefferson: Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Virginia Satir: Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.