Altruism Quote by Matthieu Ricard

Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you…

— Bessel van der Kolk

This is kind of a dual existence where you are harsh but at the same time emotional. You are there because you have experienced…

— Zoya Akhtar

“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world —…

— Anonymous

You suffer from trauma from the things that you've been through because you come from a poverty-stricken background. There are a lot of us…

— Bugzy Malone

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

— Freddie Mercury

I feel like in my life, when I've gone through during some traumatic things, I go so inward and I shut the world out…

— Allie X

When you finally escape the hold your abuser has on your mind you get a whole new outlook on life. There's an overwhelming sense…

— Anonymous

“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity,…

— Judith Lewis Herman

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that…

— Scott Derrickson

Trauma through others deeds can be devastating but it's how we respond to these challenges that allows us to discover our true selves.

— Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell

If you're struggling, it's easy to feel powerless until you take control of it and assert what you want. I can understand that feeling.…

— Andrew Haigh

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events…

— Andrew Solomon