“Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.” FeelingsAbleChildhoodSourceVictimRageMma Author:Georges St-Pierre
“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.” KnowsWantTryingChildrenFatherStruggleChildhoodStyleIdentityBattleOur ChildrenVictimForgivingLoyaltyRangeFierceOur FatherLearn To ForgiveParenting Styles Author:Augustus Napier
“The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenIdeasDreamEasyQualityCrazyChildhoodCapableAdultsAreasVictimStuckAbsurdStayingNew IdeasSeriousnessChildhood Dreams Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.” YearsHeartLightFormYoungGirlHoursEffortMorningSkyChildhoodMonthsPeriodsFameAnxietyCrossesVictimLustEveningBeachMusclesBusMotorConsumingDaydreamingNoonSixteenInsatiableDronesThrough The YearsLust For LifeSixteen Year Olds Author:Albert Camus
“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.” ThinkingTryingMindDesireEasyMy OwnLossAudienceViolenceChildhoodHappeningsVictimCriminalsInnocenceShockLoss Of Innocence Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.” PeopleNeedsFeelsShouldBelievePersonsDoeFactsStrongDifficultSimpleChildhoodVictimObviousHumiliate Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.” NeedsChildrenPersonsDifferentRealAmericaLawPleasureViewsRightsChildhoodConditionsTerribleAbusePrejudiceVictimProtectionDiscriminationCivil RightsCarefree Author:Richard Farson
“Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.” ThinkingTryingBelieveMayReasonActionPainFormChildhoodConflictLimitsDegreesDeserveAbuseVictimExcuseWoundsMatureApologySpouseJustifiedEarnestFrequencyEntitlementDurationAbusersPerpetratorsCitingAlways WrongMistreatedSense Of Entitlement Author:Rob Jackson
“If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.” IfsThinkingWellsParentBornReligiousChristianityKnowingChildhoodOppositesVictimIslamAfghanistanIndoctrinationArkansas Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion