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“Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.”

People Hard Running Tears Football Standards Trauma Rational Nfl Muscles Strain Protective Blunt Pastime Idiotic

Author:Chris Kluwe

“Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.”

Feelings Powerful Silence Talking Situation Trauma Denial Most Powerful Symptoms Not Talking Unspoken Illiterate

Author:Tian Dayton

“We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.”

Ifs Persons Action Hurt Situation Wise Alive Balance Forgiveness Forgiving Painful Trauma Resentment Behalf Holding On Erase

Author:Tian Dayton

“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.”

People World Feels Self Seems Hurt Doubt Fate Happened Protect Harder Victim Blame Deny Trauma Recovery Assault Self-doubt Precaution Inspectors

Author:Anna C Salter

“With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.”

Ifs Soul Pain Choices Causes Consequence Trauma Harm

Author:Gary Zukav

“I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.”

Years Said Facts Mother Girl Boys Involved Trauma Rhythm Shirts Wrestling Twelve T Shirt My Boys

Author:Patti Smith

“The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.”

People May Jobs Emotional Losing Divorce Trauma Psychological Hardship Psychological Trauma

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Problem Happens Eye Moving Left Memories Sleep Brain Happened Movement Amount Trauma Stores Associates Left And Right

Author:Matty Mullins

“We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.”

People Ifs Way Looks Different Artist Speak Our Lives Painting Trauma Landscape Different Ways Beginning Of Life

Author:Christian Boltanski

“In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.”

“Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.”

Sometimes Character Trauma

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.”

Difficult Boxes Trauma

Author:John McLaughlin

“All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.”

Writing Art Whole Love Is Rocks Trauma Whole Life Rock N Roll Separating

Author:Patti Smith

“One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.”

Trying Facts Care Film Challenges Levels Deals Attention Subjects Population Obvious Trauma Extras Survivor Documentaries Vigilance Minefields Documentary Films

Author:Amy Ziering

“I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.”

Way Trying May Persons Real Facts Individual Journey Childhood Commitment Scared Trauma Real Life Psychological Stay True Oblivious Archetype Insensitive

Author:Romany Malco

“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.”

Trying Believe Kind Made War Problem Artist Three Father Speak I Believe Parent Boys Four Our Lives Historical Trauma Spokes Survivor Hiding Holocaust

Author:Christian Boltanski

“Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.”

People May Grateful Trauma Faster

Author:Deborah Norville

“The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.”

People Way Long Moments Dies Stuff Term Interest Views Dog Emotional Long Time Consequence Divorce Trauma Point Of View Storytelling That Moment Emotional Life

Author:Steven Bochco

“You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.”

People Humans Helping Moving Humanity Community Situation Saws Dangerous Trauma Dangerous Situations

Author:Kofi Annan

“Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.”

“My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.”

Ifs Self Wanted Mother Winning Issues Childhood Trauma If I Could Pageant Beauty Pageant

Author:Pam Grier

“Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.”

Believe Trauma Stuck Uplifting Katie

Author:Byron Katie

“One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.”

Men Self Personality Trauma Resistance Insanity Dramatic One Man Predictions Invitations Another Man One Woman Take Control Another Woman

Author:Rosellen Brown

“Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on the physical and emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else. I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately.”

Wells Facts Action Responsibility Emotional Doctors Police Regard Blame Trauma Accidents Reports Shock Cerebral Concussions Emotional Trauma

Author:Edward Kennedy

“The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.”

Ifs Mind Past Causes Cities Enemy Influence Conditions Illness Trauma London Assumption Destructive Rome Organs Lacking Tissues Visitation

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.”

Moments Running Forget Grief Trauma

Author:Fauja Singh

“Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.”

Long War Ends Moving Term Healing Issues Conflict Trauma Decades Moving Forward Long Term Survived Reminders Haunting Health Issues Armed Conflict

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.”

People Helping Use Movement Elements Overcoming Aim Trauma Therapy

Author:Judith Lynne Hanna

“Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.”

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.”

World Easy Poor Average Trauma Easy Life

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”

Ifs Children Grows Growing Up Trauma Deceived

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“The unfortunate thing, and the tragedy of this show [Revenge], is in exploring the theme of revenge. Absolutely everyone can find peace, at some point or another, but the interesting thing is how you find it, the collateral damage along the way and all the trauma that she indirectly causes all these other people in her circle.”

People Way Shows Causes Interesting Tragedy Trauma Revenge Circles Damage Theme Unfortunate Exploring Interesting Things Finding Peace Collateral Collateral Damage Unfortunate Things

Author:Emily VanCamp

“The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.”

Bigs Kids America Political Jesus Scene Shots Bigger Following Trauma Broke

Author:John Lennon

“I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.”

People Ifs Thinking Parent Class Nice Middle Trauma Middle Class

Author:John Lennon

“I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.”

Years Littles Stills Mother Minutes Mom Mass Catholic Boring My Mom Trauma Nine Sunday Massive Nine Years Punching

Author:Richard Jeni

“I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.”

People Ideas Found Connections And Love Patterns Trauma I Realized

Author:Zachary Quinto

“The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.”

Way Believe Art I Believe Causes Sports Enjoy Levels Risk Dangerous Football Serious Truth Is Impact Trauma Driving Life Changing Injury Vitality Paralysis

Author:Naveen Jain

“I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.”

Years Facts Drama Trauma Nine Turmoil Nine Years

Author:Joan Collins

“Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.”

People Wells Self Past Form Desire Emotion Comfortable Trauma Well Being Impulse Self Knowledge Discomfort

Author:Ben Stewart

“I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.”

Self Choices Causes Love Is Violence Trauma Intimate Self Centered Love Relationship Detest Intimate Relationships Personal Choice

Author:Akiane Kramarik

“I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them (me in Girlbomb, Samantha in Have You Found Her, and Elizabeth in I, Liar) had some early family trauma that contributed to their dysfunctional methods of dealing with the world, but I wouldn't call them/myself victims - survivors, maybe, but not victims. Nor do I think of them/myself as con artists.”

Thinking World Feels Young Artist Found Written Method Victim Including Trauma Liars Survivor Young Women Con Artist Samantha

Author:Janice Erlbaum

“What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with what they had.”

“Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?”

People Years Enough Past Childhood Couple Thousand Letters Raised Trauma Violent Mail Alcoholics

Author:Dean Koontz

“I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.”

People Thinking Years Losing Appreciate Trauma

Author:Jerry West

“When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.”

People Has Beens Different Matter Enough Stories Spirit Levels Trauma Different Levels

Author:Matana Roberts

“Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.”

“We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.”

Way Stills War America Past Film White Nice Historical Males Trauma Civil War Native Native American Past Relationship

Author:Adam Beach

“Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors. We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them. This movie shows that perspective from Scott's character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It's a nice little twist.”

“The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.”

Stories Problem Order Poverty Worry Disease Eating Police Feminist Divorce Trauma Pregnancy Shelter Assault Superhero Gloss

Author:Daphne Gottlieb

“Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind of narrative, it's my kind of storytelling. It's not style; it's just there.”

Ifs Kind Made Shows Style Trauma Storytelling Narrative Pornography

Author:Lav Diaz

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