Abuse-recovery Quote by Jeanne McElvaney

“Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“We are survivors, in this age, so theories of progress ill become us, because we are intimately acquainted with the costs. To realize that…

— Saul Bellow

“Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and…

— James Redfield

“Many survivors find that they didn’t really know how to express sadness or anger throughout most of their lives. They were instead expected to…

— Jackson MacKenzie

“Being a survivor made every moment, every kind word a little more meaningful, because they were the ones who knew what almost never was.”

— Cambria Hebert

“You and I can handle certain pressures. We don't feel the need to exaggerate or indulge in, quote, unquote, stress. We're survivors. We have…

— Hilary Reyl

“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.”

— Steven Cooper

“Special things have a way of surviving.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Familiarity, not survival, is the strongest drive in human beings.”

— Jill Conner Browne

“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the apparently (until…

— Joan Didion

“Thoughtful minds grow, in the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.”

— Aisha Mirza

“it seems to me that this itself was the disaster I foresaw, a common enough disaster for most infants these days: that I was…

— Yaa Gyasi