Quotes of: Survivors Keyword

the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears

Breaking Free: Help For Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse

Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story

Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.

Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story

It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

The healing process is best described as a spiral. Survivors go through the stages once, sometimes many times; sometimes in one order, sometimes in another. Each time they hit a stage again, they move up the spiral: they can integrate new information...

Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Is a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse

One must consider that small children are virtually incapable of making much impact on their world. No matter what path taken as a child, survivors grow up believing they should have done something differently. Perhaps there is no greater form of sur...

Sarah E. Olson

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

The Survivors Club

Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don’t know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".

To the Survivors

As long as they don’t harm the environment, pay taxes, and don't do it in my bed, it’s none of my business.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

Traveling equals having experiences which translate into more opportunities for exposing incorrect ideas about life.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

Trauma and Recovery

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Jeff Probst

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

Once you learn to be happy, you won’t tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.

The Hope Handbook for Survivors: The Seach for Personal Growth

You can replace negative self-talk with optimistic thoughts. It is possible to change a negative perspective on life into a positive life force if you keep a sense of proportion.

Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story

To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the impossible.

Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse

a quick turn around a corner and my planet becomes sand on the shore of a dying Universe

The Journey of Healing: Wisdom from Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Literary Anthology