Life Quote by Scott Derrickson

“Physical, emotional, and mental pain are inevitable in life. Suffering is another matter. Suffering is the personalization we bring to our difficulties. [We have…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try…

— Carolyn Spring

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

— Mary Gauthier

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

— Oscar Wilde

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force…

— Judith Lewis Herman

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

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

“Countless self-help books, blogs and seminars promise relief from suffering, when pain and suffering are as much part of life as happiness and joy.The…

— Harriet Lerner

“Pain exists only in the mind. Whether an event is real or not doesn’t matter, only that the mind believes it is. Suffering can…

— Elizabeth Herrera

“It is entirely possible to feel someone’s pain, acknowledge their suffering, hold it in our hands and support them with our presence without depleting…

— Rana Awdish

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to…

— Peter A. Levine