“They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So” — Harper Bliss Copy Share Image
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them. — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's… — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
“Seeing isn't always believing. Traumatic events are often accompanied by a form of disassociation.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss.… — Sasha Azevedo Copy Share Image
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound.… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
“Adrian paled and went perfectly still as he stared at the newcomer, and in that moment, all my high hopes for him… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you… — Tracey Garvis-Graves Copy Share Image
“when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. All the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge,… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Writing about traumatic events in your life is actually much harder than being there the first time round because you have to… — Gok Wan Copy Share Image
Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I’m Armenian, and April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime.… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
“The Americans gave it a name, PTSD — Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I had heard about it before: it was something that… — Marco Lupis Copy Share Image
“One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
